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• Go as far as you can see, when you get there you'll see further. Orison
Swett Marden.
• Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. Unknown.
• Just because you can't do everything doesn't mean you shouldn't do
something. Earl Nightingale.
• What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon
Hill.
• You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never
were; and I say 'Why not?' George Bernard Shaw.
• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you
something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo
Emerson.
• People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when
the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is
revealed only if there is a light from within. Elizabeth Kubler Ross.
• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James.
• In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we
have chosen this lifetime. Richard Bach.
• It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man
can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
• Only those who can see the invisible, can accomplish the impossible.
Patrick Snow.
• There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The
true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. Hindu proverb.
• There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some
who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas Everett.
• Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry
Ford.
• Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if
you're alive it isn't. Richard Bach.
• Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit
there. Will Rogers.
• Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. Henri L.
Bergson.
• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we
stop playing. George Bernard Shaw.

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• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• Begin with the end in mind. Stephen Covey.
• The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is
our attitude… I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and
90% how I react to it. Charles Swindoll.
• People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does
bathing. That's why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar.
• What we see depends mainly on what we look for. Sir John Lubbock.
• Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else
wants for you. Jerry Gillies.
• Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything. Johann
Wolfgang Von Goethe.
• The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate
themselves. Mike Ditka.
• A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared
in a life reaches a life. Bill Gothard.
• The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can
alter his life by altering his attitude. William James.
• You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma
Gandhi.
• One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to
self- confidence is preparation. Arthur Ashe.
• I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck
I have. Thomas Jefferson.
• Life's like a boom-a-rang. The more good you throw out, the more
you receive in return. Josh S. Hinds.
• You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going
to go to bed with satisfaction. George Horace Lorimer.
• Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a
thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. Jeremy Kitson.
• If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing
that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write
a new page. Mark Houlahan.
• And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in
your years. Abraham Lincoln.
• The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with
them, but to reveal their own. Benjamin Disraeli.

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• Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work
and to play and to look up at the stars. Henry Van Dyke.
• If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. David Carradine.
• It's never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot.
• Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right. Henry
Ford.
• Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. Emile Coue.
• No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. William Blake.
• We tend to get what we expect. Norman Vincent Peale.
• In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein.
• Seize the day, Carpe Diem. Quintus Hortius Flaccus.
• When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view
from the top. Anonymous.
• If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your
potential is virtually limitless. Jay Sidhu.
• Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
but you have an obligation to be one. Eleanor Roosevelt.
• Knowledge itself is power. Francis Bacon.
• Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action. David Seabury.
• The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a
man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat
higher. Thomas Huxley.
• The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking
first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex
human problems to manageable proportions. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
• A good goal is like a strenuous exercise, it makes you stretch. Mary
Kay Ash.
• Opportunity... often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or
temporary defeat. Napoleon Hill.
• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. Moliere.
• If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat
you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you
become that. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
• That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of
the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased. Ralph Waldo
Emerson.
• If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison.

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• Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what


you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. Lou Holtz.
• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes
off your goal. Henry Ford.
• Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better
place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I
make it better?' To that there is an answer. Leo F. Buscaglia.
• We are new every day. Irene Claremont de Castillego.
• A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the
value of life. Charles Darwin.
• The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good
and grieves at the opposite. Cicero.
• I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill.
• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees
the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill.
• Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in
awareness. James Thurber.
• What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of
art in progress? Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every
second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.
Thomas Crum.
• You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar.
• Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. Chinese
proverb.
• The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often
comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. Henry
Ward Beecher.
• Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite
possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us. James
Harvey Robinson.
• He who believes is strong. Strong convictions precede great actions.
J.F. Clarke.
• Expect the dawn of a new beginning in the dark nights of life. Lloyd
John Ogilvie.
• Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside
special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a
reason to make every day a special one. Leo Buscaglia.

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• Hitch your wagon to a star. Ralph Waldo Emerson.


• When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is
that I am thankful I have a cup. Sam Lefkowitz.
• Bad times, hard times - this is what people keep saying; but let us live
well, and times shall be good. We are the times: such as we are, such
are the times. St. Augustine.
• Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has
reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome trying to
succeed. Booker T. Washington.
• One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is
the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
Edward B. Butler.
• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with
success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau.
• No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas ever
drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara ever turned light and
power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused,
dedicated, disciplined. Harry Emerson Fosdick.
• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the
shore for a very long time. Andre Gide.
• Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through
failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know… One
who doesn't try cannot fail and become wise. William Saroyan.
• A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child. Mencius.
• Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,
magic and power in it. Begin it now. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
• What does it mean to succeed? Most people see success as being rich
and famous or powerful and influential. Others see it as being at the
top of their profession and standing out from the rest. The wise see
success in a more personal way; they see it as achieving the goals they
have set for themselves, and then feeling pride and satisfaction in their
accomplishments. True success is felt in the heart, not measured by
money and power. So be true to yourself and achieve the goals you
set. For success is reaching those goals and feeling proud of what you
have accomplished. Tim Tweedie.
• To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Edmonds.

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• Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. Henry


Ward Beecher.
• Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
Joseph Conrad.
• Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but
instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
St. Francis De Sales.
• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a
different way. Dale Carnegie.
• There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard
work, learning from failure. Colin Powell.
• As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to
remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves. Mahatma
Gandhi.
• The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become. Charles du Bois.
• Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your
hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose
them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz.
• Reputation is what folks think you are. Personality is what you seem
to be. Character is what you really are. Alfred Armand Montapert.
• We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we
give! Winston Churchill.
• Know Thyself. Socrates.
• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is
where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry
David Thoreau.
• You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts,
acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits.
When we all help one another, everybody wins. Jim Stovall.
• Management is nothing more than motivating other people. Lee
Iacocca.
• The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water; but to walk
on the earth. Chinese proverb.
• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis
Bacon.

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• The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look
like they cannot be done. Arnold Palmer.
• The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is
now. Chinese proverb.
• There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the
job. George Crane.
• In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right
thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt.
• Start where you are. Edgar Cayce.
• We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We
already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. Abraham
Maslow.
• Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this
is the beginning of wisdom. Theodore Isaac Rubin.
• Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your
dreams as you do to your fears. Richard Wilkins.
• The map is not the territory. Alfred Korzbyski.
• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. Warren G.
Bennis.
• How long should you try? Until. Jim Rohn.
• Really, getting to do what you love to do every day, that’s the ultimate
luxury. And particularly when you can do it with terrific people
around you. Warren Buffett.
• Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to
be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only
way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it
yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. Steve Jobs.
• Act as if it were impossible to fail. Dorothea Brande.
• If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career
life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-
development. Brian Tracy.
• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small
people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too,
can become great. Mark Twain.
• When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound,
rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill.
• Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that
you want. Jim Rohn.

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• Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. Fernando
Flores.
• The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. Joe
Paterno.
• The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. Mark
Twain.
• Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through
the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion,
practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time,
manifested over years, not weeks. Elbert Hubbard.
• Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back
to God. Leo Buscaglia.
• The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
Jim Rohn.
• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun.
• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not
only plan, but also believe. Anatole France.
• No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that created it.
We need to see the world anew. Albert Einstein.
• To change your reality you have to change your inner thoughts. David
Bohm.
• Choices in life are rarely pure, but to understand the middle ground it
is helpful to imagine the extremes. Peter Berger.
• If we always do what we've always done, we will get what we've
always got. Adam Urbanski.
• Courage is the first of human virtues because it makes all others
possible. Aristotle.
• We can easily forgive a child whom is frightened of the dark; the real
tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato.
• All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning
of our community depends on its capacity to develop each gift. Peter
Senge.
• Some people think you are strong when you hold on. Others think it is
when you let go. Sylvia Robinson.
• Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements,
looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been
moved. In this act lies the first step towards freedom. Peter Berger.

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• The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who
have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.
Brian Tracy.
• The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back.
That's real glory. Vince Lombardi.
• There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a
winner, but there is really only one way to be a loser, and that is to fail
and not look beyond the failure. Kyle Rote, Jr.
• Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. Doug Ivester.
• I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered
my nightmares because of my dreams. Jonas Salk.
• All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what
their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every
day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy.
• Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is
to see what you believe. St. Augustine.
• The better off you are, the more you’ll be able to give to others. Better
yet, go beyond just taking care of yourself. Create an extraordinary
life – an ordinary life to which you’ve added just that extra little bit of
dedication, commitment, and love. Anthony Robbins.
• It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. Anthony
Robbins.
• Personal power means being persistent in taking action: every time
you do something, you learn from it, and you find a way to do it better
next time. Anthony Robbins.
• Earn all that you can, save all that you can, and give all that you can.
John Wesley.
• There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. Socrates.
• Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of
courage and of true progress. Nicholas Murry Butler.
• Even if you're on the right track, you won't get anywhere if you're
standing still. Will Rogers.
• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an
individual views a mistake. Nelson Boswell.
• There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and
without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who
prepares himself for them with patience. Jean De La BruyèRe.

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• Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they
were the big things. Robert Brault.
• It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own
opportunities, but its own talents. Eric Hoffer.
• Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation
and opportunity meet. Roy D. Chapin Jr.
• When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word
"succeed"; you find that it simply means to follow through. F. W.
Nichol.
• Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed
on an equal or greater benefit. Napoleon Hill.
• How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and
tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will
have been all of these. George Washington Carver.
• Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. Henry
Ford.
• I never see failure as failure, but only as a learning experience. Tom
Hopkins.
• Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.
Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you
do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie.
• Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as
you and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's
Paradise. Phillips Brooks.
• If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you
go. John B. Gough.
• No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. Aesop.
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a
habit. Aristotle.
• The conquering of fear is the beginning of wisdom. J. M. Cousteau.
• There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you
cannot afford not to take. Peter F. Drucker.
• A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can
become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
David Gergen.
• The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another. Thomas
Jefferson.

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• If you want to succeed in your Life, remember this phrase: the Past
does not equal the Future. Because you failed yesterday; or all day
today; or a moment ago; or for the last six months; the last 16 years;
or the last fifty years of Life, doesn't mean anything... All that matters
is: what are you going to do, RIGHT NOW!!? Anthony Robbins.
• Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them. Alfred North
Whitehead.
• Leadership determines the direction of the company. Organization
determines the potential of the company. Personnel determine the
success of the company. John Maxwell.
• In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and
of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born
again. James Agee.
• If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the
companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering
with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Carson.
• Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one
word from your vocabulary: impossible. Robert Schuller.
• You can have everything you want if you help others get what they
want. Zig Ziglar.
• You got to do before you can be; you got to be before you can have.
Zig Ziglar.
• The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a
lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches
you a lesson. Tom Bodett.
• Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as
by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you
as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Kahlil Gibran.
• You always have a choice, even if it is only a choice of your attitude.
Lucy MacDonald.
• As soon as you recognize that you are able to control your thoughts
happiness will come within your reach. David Baird.
• Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far
more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting
moment. Benjamin Franklin.
• Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or
happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. Francesca
Reigler.

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• If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is


favourable. Seneca.
• What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have
done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pine.
• If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in
each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
• The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust.
• You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that
nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that
God's creative principle works in you. Paramahansa Yogananda.
• It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man
can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
• The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
Marianne Williamson.
• It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the
best, you very often get it. W. Somerset Maugham.
• Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is
essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein.
• A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always
with the same person. Mignon Mclaughlin.
• Why worry about tomorrow and spoil today, when joy today will
bring forth a better memory for tomorrow. Ethan Daniel.
• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain.
• Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love.
This is an unalterable law. Buddha.
• The future depends on what we do in the present. Mahatma Gandhi.
• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi.
• Don’t ever say that you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the
same number of hours in a day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis
Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo DA Vinci, Thomas
Jefferson and Albert Einstein. H. Jackson Brown.
• Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any
higher than you think. Benjamin Disraeli.

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• Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are
still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be
born. Dale E. Turner.
• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly
endless. Mother Teresa.
• Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Dalai Lama.
• Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot.
• Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your
presence light new light in the hearts of people. Mother Teresa.
• If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. William James.
• The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others. Jean de La
Bruyere.
• Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so. Thomas
Carlyle.
• The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and
it smiles, too. Herbert Samuels.
• When we realize that life lasts for a limited time, then we can get on
with the business of living each day to the maximum. Doug Manning.
• Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but
manifestations of strength and resolution. Kahlil Gibran.
• Isidor Isaac Rabi's mother used to ask him, upon his return from
school each day: did you ask any good questions today, Isaac? Steve
Chandler.
• The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in
themselves. Joseph Campbell.
• It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative
expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein.
• When inspiration does not come to me, I go half way to meet it.
Sigmund Freud.
• The purpose of intimate partnership is for us to midwife the perfection
in each other. Marianne Williamson.
• Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they
think of you. H. Jackson Brown.
• If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or
task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you
will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. Brian
Tracy.

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• The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught,
as that every child should be given the wish to learn. John Lubbock.
• The best way to make children good is to make them happy. Oscar
Wilde.
• The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each
other. Jan Blaustone.
• The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and
to let it come in. Morrie Schwartz.
• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who
walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last
piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer
sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one
thing: the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any
given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Viktor E.
Frankl.
• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving
someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu.
• Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Seneca.
• Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and
not giving it. William Arthur Ward.
• Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength. Sigmund Freud.
• We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big
difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which,
over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright-Edelman.
• When I grow up I want to be a little boy. Joseph Heller.
• Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. Bernard
Meltzer.
• The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The
more you help others, the more they will want to help you. Brian
Tracy.
• Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait
for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.
Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's
at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and
savored. Earl Nightingale.
• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even
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who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray
twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt.
• Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something
stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we
might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. Earl
Nightingale.
• Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness
without action. Benjamin Disraeli.
• Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not
about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern
yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still
possible for you to do. Pope John XXIII.
• The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you
like and respect yourself. Brian Tracy.
• Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what
you're going to do now and do it. William Durant.
• Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and
make your dreams come true. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror
and saying, 'I love you!' Do this for thirty days and watch how you
transform. Mark Victor Hansen.
• You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people
actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take
action. Anthony Robbins.
• Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. Earl Nightingale.
• People depend on a leader to make wise decisions, to be willing to
face difficult issues, and to prepare for the future. They want a leader
who serves them by making decisions that will release their creativity,
solve problems, and help them build their organization. People depend
on a leader to make wise decisions, to be willing to face difficult
issues, and to prepare for the future. They want a leader who serves
them by making decisions that will release their creativity, solve
problems, and help them build their organization. Sheila Murray
Bethel.
• It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it
frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
• If you are not enjoying yourself, you are wasting your time! Susan
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• The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all,
the world needs dreamers who do. Sarah Ban Breathnach.
• Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers
compare their achievements with those of other people. Nido Qubein.
• Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A
whole, clear glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! Dale
Carnegie.
• Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but
only a sequence of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives.
Charlotte Gray.
• You don't have to get it perfect – you just have to get it going. Babies
don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they do. Mark Victor
Hansen.
• True motivation comes from within - from the willingness to see a
dream fulfilled - from the desire to leave the world better than you
found it. Steve Brunkhorst.
• Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in
the dictionary. Sarah Ban Breathnach.
• The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive
of the environment in which you first find yourself. Mark Caine.
• It's usually the last ounce of effort that tips the scales of success. Rick
Beneteau.
• There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world
long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you. Paul
J. Meyer.
• When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an
act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived
consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate
in the creation of a better world. Scout Cloud Lee.
• When the night is cloudy, I still believe in stars. Even when the
darkness blocks the light. They're shining out like beacons on the
other side of hope. You can see them when you hold your heart just
right. Selia Qynn.
• Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and
enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass! Paul J.
Meyer.
• Every thought has the power to bring into being the visible from the
invisible. It is absolutely necessary for us all to understand that
everything we think, do or say comes back to us. Every thought, word

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• Cherish your visions and your dreams. They are the children of your
soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill.
• Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope or confidence. Helen Keller.
• Hold a picture of yourself long enough in your mind’s eye and you
will be drawn toward it. Harry Emerson Fosdick.
• The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of
today; Let us move forward with strong and active faith. Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
• If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened
to be a repeat of the past. A. R. Bernard.
• Look ahead; envision the beautiful blessings waiting on your distant
shores. If you follow your personal stepping-stones with joy, love,
faith and gratitude, the swiftest currents will not impede your journey.
Steve Brunkhorst.
• The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his
opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli.
• Commitment turns a promise into reality with words that speak boldly
of your intentions and actions that speak louder than words. Steve
Brunkhorst.
• Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our
moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you
will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of
balance, humility, and commitment. H. Ross Perot.
• I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and
life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-
ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can
move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic
as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those
who live their dreams from those who live in regret. Anthony Robbins.
• Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for
which the first was made; our times are in his hand who said, 'A
whole I planned, youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be
afraid! Robert Browning.
• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer
day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float
across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. Sir John Lubbock.

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• For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult
of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which
all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke.
• Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the
love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love
is a miracle. Marianne Williamson.
• Bigness comes from doing many small things well. Individually, they
are not very dramatic transactions. Together though, they add up.
Edward S. Finkelstein.
• We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for
loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the
world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more
dying for a little love. Mother Teresa.
• For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and
ever-present sense of humor; it is the next best thing to an abiding
faith in providence. George Barrell Cheever.
• Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for
anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps
friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and
contentment. Grenville Kleiser.
• You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a
child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around
— and why his parents will always wave back. William D. Tammeus.
• If a child sees his parents day in and day out behaving with self-
discipline, restraint, dignity and a capacity to order their own lives,
then the child will come to feel in the deepest fibers of his being that
this is the way to live. M. Scott Peck.
• If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be
enthusiasm. Bruce Barton.
• If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To
keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa.
• The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of
responsibility and the wings of independence. Denis Waitley.
• In the world to come each of us will be called to account for all the
good things God put on this earth which we refused to enjoy. Talmud.
• In order to break any habit, repetition of the preferred behavior is a
must! Susan Jeffers.

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• In daily life, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us


grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. Brother David Steindl-
Rast.
• One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. Oscar
Wilde.
• Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you
respond to it. Lou Holtz.
• I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson.
• Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
was once eccentric. Bertrand Russell.
• The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. Joe
Paterno.
• Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who
receive it. Karl A. Menninger.
• When all else is lost, the future still remains. Christian Nevell Bovee.
• The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life
to celebrate. Oprah Winfrey.
• One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great
surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford.
• Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Leonardo da Vinci.
• Allow yourself to rest when you need it, to recognize when you
become exhausted, to know that even the best of us get tired. Gary
Zukav
• Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be
changed in ways you can't imagine. Kathleen Norris
• Talent is only the starting point. Irving Berlin.
• One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him
at politeness. Josh Billings.
• Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. George Halas.
• Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci.
• The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana.
• If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a
decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
Chinese Proverb.
• We turn not older with years, but newer every day. Emily Dickinson.

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• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel


Kant.
• If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another
chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the
staying down. Mary Pickford.
• Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old
age. Christopher Morley.
• Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is
perilous. Confucius.
• Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see
inside of you. Wally Amos.
• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second
chance. Harrison Ford.
• Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? Cicero.
• If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. Margaret
Fuller.
• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you
desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create
what you will. George Bernard Shaw.
• Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
• Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the
strong. Leo Buscaglia.
• Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield.
• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success;
leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right
wall. Stephen R. Covey.
• Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change
their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw.
• Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to
understand. Neil Armstrong.
• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into
enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order,
confusion to clarity....Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace
for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie.
• In order to end the struggle and dance with life, we don’t get stronger
in order to conquer. We get stronger in order to be the very best that
we can be. Susan Jeffers.

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• We must remember to celebrate every inner or outer “win” in our


lives. Susan Jeffers.
• The most important thing you can do for yourself is to follow the Path
that takes you to the best of who you are. Finding the enormous
amount of power and love that lies within is the secret to ending the
struggle and dancing with life. Susan Jeffers.
• The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get
a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter
of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it
is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan.
• Motivation is an external, temporary high that PUSHES you forward.
Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which PULLS you forward.
Thomas Leonard.
• If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my
axe. Abraham Lincoln.
• Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that
person, a beautiful thing. Mother Teresa.
• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who
keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your
mind young. Henry Ford.
• It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned.
It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it
is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant.
It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned.
It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it
is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant.
Henry Ward Beecher.
• No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he
is unhappy. Sigmund Freud.
• Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against
cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have
no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience
when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex
your mind. Leonardo da Vinci.
• I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. Miles Davis.
• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein.
• We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when
we created them. Albert Einstein.

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• Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things,
not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference
to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel
centered and that gives their work meaning. Warren G. Bennis.
• You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. Anthony J.
D'Angelo.
• The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for
themselves. Ray Kroc.
• When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a
leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure. Robert Townsend.
• Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of
their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what
they can accomplish. Sam Walton.
• To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest
proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. Paul
Aubuchon.
• Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you
can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or lifetime is
certain for those who are friends. Richard David Bach.
• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through
life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his
friendships in constant repair. Dr. Samuel Johnson.
• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts:
therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no
notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius.
• Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of
the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being
shared. Buddha.
• For winners, losing inspires them. For losers, losing defeats them.
Robert T. Kiyosaki.
• Listening is more important than talking. If that was not true, God
would not have given us two ears and only one mouth. Robert T.
Kiyosaki.
• Whenever you feel ‘short’ or in ‘need’ of something, give what you
want first and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a
smile, love, friendship. Robert T. Kiyosaki.
• To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior
and to surround yourself with inferior things. On the other hand, to fix

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• Every man who becomes rich by competition throws down behind


him the ladder by which he rises, and keeps others down; but every
man who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow
him, and inspires them to do so. Wallace D. Wattles.
• The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the
most of yourself. Wallace D. Wattles.
• You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting
rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the
competitive one. Wallace D. Wattles.
• We want preachers who can not only tell us how, but who in their
own persons will show us how. We need the preacher who will
himself be rich, healthy, great and beloved, to teach us how to attain
to these things; and when he comes he will find a numerous and loyal
following. Wallace D. Wattles.
• The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single
day you are improving yourself in some way. Anthony Robbins.
• Of all those people who went before to prepare the way for us, most
of those people will not ask us to pay them back. But what they do ask
of us is to pay it forward – that we make this world a better place for
those who come after us in just the way that they made this a better
place for us. Naomi Tutu.
• You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough
other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar.
• Being cheerful keeps you healthy. King Solomon.
• If you go out looking for friends, you’re going to find they’re very
scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere. Zig
Ziglar.
• If you learn from a defeat, you haven’t really lost. Zig Ziglar.
• Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present
as is the way you see your future. Tony Campolo.
• If there is hope in the future there is power in the present. John
Maxwell.
• Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
Janet Lane.
• Whatever happens, do not lose hold of the two main ropes of life –
hope and faith. Zig Ziglar.
• If things go wrong, don’t go with them. Roger Babson.

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• Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as


by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you
as by the way your mind looks at what happens. John Homer Miller.
• Winners evaluate themselves in a positive manner and look for their
strengths as they work to overcome weaknesses. Zig Ziglar.
• A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for
success in life. Joyce Brothers.
• When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up at the same
time. Zig Ziglar.
• When your image improves, your performance improves. Zig Ziglar.
• A healthy self-image is simply becoming the best ‘you’ that you can
possibly be. Zig Ziglar.
• You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want
to be. David Viscott.
• The only way to reach your long-range goals is through achieving
your short-range objectives. Zig Ziglar.
• Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing
it. Zig Ziglar.
• Your natural resources, unlike the natural resources on planet Earth,
will be wasted and ‘used up’ only if they are never used at all. Zig
Ziglar.
• There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is
to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. Henry Van Dyke.
• In order to succeed, you must know what you are doing, like what you
are doing and believe in what you are doing. Will Rogers.
• You cannot climb the ladder of success with your hands in your
pockets. Zig Ziglar.
• The price of success is much lower than the price of failure. Zig
Ziglar.
• You were born to win, but in order to become a winner you must plan
to win and prepare to win. Then you can legitimately expect to win.
Zig Ziglar.
• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more
important than any other one thing. Abraham Lincoln.
• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Zig Ziglar.
• Duty makes us do things well, but love helps us do them beautifully.
Zig Ziglar.

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• Life is an echo. What you send out, you get back. What you give, you
get. Zig Ziglar.
• It’s impossible to influence someone else for the good and give them a
boost without gaining a benefit yourself. Zig Ziglar.
• Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement,
all success, all achievement in real life grows. Ben Stein.
• Be a good-finder – look for the good in others. Zig Ziglar.
• There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals
only with the help of others. George Shinn.
• Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth.
George W. Crane.
• The more you ‘pass on’ to others, the more you keep for yourself. Zig
Ziglar.
• You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments that
stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments
when you have done things in a spirit of love. Henry Drummond.
• Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Ralph Waldo
Emerson.
• When you think you can’t…revisit a previous triumph. Jack Canfield.
• To be a leader, you must stand for something, or you will fall for
anything. Anthony Pagano.
• Courage is facing your fears. Stupidity is fearing nothing. Todd
Bellemare.
• People become successful the minute they decide to. Harvey Mackay.
• The fastest way to pass your own expectations is to add passion to
your labor. Mike Litman.
• Success is predictable. Brian Tracy.
• Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny. Clair
Oliver.
• Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it
is. Anticipate the future for what it can become. Tracy L. McNair.
• If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must
expect to employ methods never before attempted. Francis Bacon.
• I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came
success. Albert Einstein.
• Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of
our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train,
and utilize this precious gift. Brian Tracy.

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• People with goals succeed because they know where they are going.
Earl Nightingale.
• For I can do ALL things through Christ who gives me strength.
Philippians 4:13.
• To me, a winner is someone who recognizes their God-given talents,
works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses those skills to
accomplish his goals. Even when I lost, I learned what my weaknesses
were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses into
strengths. Larry Bird.
• Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again when the
struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, the one with a little
more courage, and a little more effort will have victory. James F. Bell.
• Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and
die. Ray Norda.
• To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role
models. Jack Canfield.
• Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached their
goal, while others obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment,
more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus.
• Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one
sitting. It needs continual and regular refills. Peter Davies.
• Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one
can go. T. S. Eliot.
• The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
Alexander Graham Bell.
• I am not just here to make a living; I am here to make a life. Helice
Bridges.
• It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.
Vince Lombardi.
• I would rather fail in a cause that would ultimately succeed, than
succeed in a cause that would ultimately fail. Woodrow Wilson.
• Read something positive every night and listen to something helpful
every morning. Tom Hopkins.
• Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to
succeeding. Jimmy Valvano.
• Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable. Emily Guay.
• People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that
they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the
first secret of success. Norman Vincent Peale.

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• Allow yourself to dream and fantasize about your ideal life; what it
would look like, and what it would feel like. Then do something
everyday to make it a reality! Brian Tracy.
• If the mind of man can believe, the mind of man can achieve.
Napoleon Hill.
• Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in
actions. Harold S. Geneen.
• I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any
kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything,
even nature. John D. Rockefeller.
• Start each day by affirming peaceful, contended, and happy attitudes
and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Norman Vincent
Peale.
• The happiest life is that which consistently exercises and educates
what is best in us. Philip G. Hamerton.
• You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take
risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are
always going to be placed in front of you. If you don’t have that kind
of feeling for what it is you are doing, you’ll stop at the first giant
hurdle. George Lucas.
• Keys to success: research your ideas, plan for success, expect success,
and just do it. John S. Hinds.
• You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re
going to go to bed with satisfaction. George Horace Lorimer.
• Destiny is not a matter of chance; it’s a matter of choice. It is not a
thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. Jeremy Kitson.
• If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing
that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write
a new page. Mark Houlahan.
• If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity
to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning. Mahatma
Gandhi.
• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every
time we fall. Nelson Mandela.
• All of our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue
them. Walt Disney.
• To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and
act on it with all of your heart. Christy Borgeld.
• Our intentions create our reality. Wayne W. Dyer.

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• Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they
want to; all they need is one reason why they can. Willis Whitney.
• Any man who develops the power to perceive truth, and who can
show that he always knows the right thing to do and that he can be
trusted to do the right thing, will be honored and advanced; the whole
world is looking eagerly for such men. Wallace D. Wattles.
• Your ability will grow to match your dreams. Jim Rohn.
• I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of
man to elevate his life by conscious effort. Henry David Thoreau.
• All leaders are readers. Jim Rohn.
• The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate
the mighty force of habit and must understand that practices are what
create habits. We must be quick to break those old habits that break us
and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that
will help us achieve the success we desire. J. Paul Getty.
• Wisdom is gained by reading the mind of God. Wallace D. Wattles.
• The highest form of communication is example. Sheila Murray
Bethel.
• Commit yourself to life long learning. The most valuable asset you
will ever have is your mind and what you put in it. Brian Tracy.
• A dream is not something that you wake up from, but something that
wakes you up. Charlie Hedges.
• Success is measured in terms of reaching your goals, dreams, and
expectations. Your success is determined by hard work, persistence,
and determination. If you are going to be a success in life it’s all up to
you…it’s your responsibility. Will Horton.
• You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event – it is a
habit. Aristotle.
• Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears.
Terry Litwiller.
• I feel the most important requirement to success is learning to
overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.
Reggie Jackson.
• Some things have to be believed to be seen. Ralph Hodgson.
• Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the
creatures of man. Benjamin Disraeli.
• I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is
another step forward. Thomas Edison.

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• Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door
will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7.
• Hold yourself to a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.
Henry Ward Beecher.
• The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is
disappointment. William W. Ward.
• Every man is an impossibility until he is born. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless
contribution will ever experience life’s deepest joy; true fulfillment.
Anthony Robbins.
• The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in
themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do
anything! Swami Vivekananda.
• To move the world, we must first move ourselves. Socrates.
• We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Marcel Proust.
• Anything that enlarges the sphere of human powers and shows man he
can do what he thought he could not do is valuable. Ben Johnson.
• It is not enough to have knowledge: one must apply it. It is not enough
to have wishes; one must also accomplish it. Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe.
• Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or
actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities – always see
them, for they are always there. Norman Vincent Peale.
• Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in
knowing that you did your best to become the best you are capable of
becoming. John Wooden.
• The world makes way for a man who knows where he is going. Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
• Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own
expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts
upon. Thomas Dewar.
• High expectations are the key to everything. Sam Walton.
• Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little
difference between obstacle and opportunity, and are able to turn both
to their advantage. Victor Kiam.
• The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their
commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of
endeavor. Vince Lombardi.

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• Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og
Mandino.
• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that
something else is more important than one’s fear. Ambrose Redmoon.
• Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before
them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Orison Swett Marden.
• Failure is good. It is fertilizer. Everything I have learned about
coaching, I have learned from making mistakes. Rick Petino.
• In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing
the limits do you ever find them. Joyce Brothers.
• It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty,
but faith with action is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but desire and
work is invincible. Thomas Robert Gaines.
• We do not know who we are until we see what we can do. Martha
Grimes.
• It takes no more effort to expect the best, than to fear for the worst.
It’s healthier, more productive, and a lot more fun. Philip E. Hambert.
• Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are
still untapped possibilities within us, and a new beauty waiting to be
born. Dale Turner.
• Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the
impossible. Charles Caleb Colton.
• It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of
our abilities do not exist. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
• Your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential.
Anthony Robbins.
• When you think big, your results are big. Thomas J. Vilord.
• Everything changes when you change. Jim Rohn.
• You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to
be great. Les Brown.
• Living itself is a risky business. If we spent half as much time learning
how to take risks as we spend avoiding them, we wouldn’t have so
much fear in life. E. Paul Torrance.
• I am the captain of my soul. I am the master of my life. William
Henley.
• Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any
field! Denis Waitley.

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• I must create a system, or be enslaved in another man’s. I will not


reason and compare; my business is to create. William Blake.
• The principle of competing is against yourself. It’s about self-
improvement, and being better than you were the day before. Steve
Young.
• There will never be another now. I will make the most of today. There
will never be another me. I will make the most of myself. Robert H.
Schuller.
• What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it
becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which
he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit
until he finds it. Alexander Graham Bell.
• Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn
around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work
around it. Michael Jordan.
• Knowing is not enough; we must apply it. Willing is not enough; we
must do it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
• First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do.
Epictetus.
• Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do. Gerry Sikorski.
• You don’t just stumble into the future; you create your own future.
Roger Smith.
• This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Scott Reed.
• Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by a horse sense and persistence, is
the quality that most frequently makes for success. Dale Carnegie.
• A thousand mile journey begins with one step. Lao Tzu.
• Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
• You must have long-term goals to keep you from being frustrated by
short-term failures. Charles C. Noble.
• You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile
goal. Charles Carlson.
• What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you
become by achieving your goals. Zig Ziglar.
• If I have correct goals and I keep pursuing them the best way I know
how, everything falls into line. If I do the right thing, I am going to
succeed. Dan Dierdorf.

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• From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That
is the point that must be reached. Franz Kafka.
• By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the
process of becoming the person you most want to be. Mark Victor
Hansen.
• Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. Jeremy Collier.
• It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the
one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. Vince
Lombardi.
• The more you seek security, the less of it you have. The more you
seek opportunity, the more likely it will be that you will achieve the
security you desire. Brian Tracy.
• Success is a journey, not a destination. Ben Sweetland.
• What seems impossible one minute, through faith, becomes possible
the next. Norman Vincent Peale.
• Determination is the wake up call to the human will. Anthony
Robbins.
• Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his
accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
Golo Mann.
• Failure is a success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes.
• The truth of the matter is that there is nothing you can’t accomplish if
you clearly decide what it is that you are absolutely committed to
achieving, you are willing to take massive action, and you continue to
change your approach until you achieve what you want, using
whatever life gives you along the way. Anthony Robbins.
• Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
to believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
Bruce Barton.
• God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame. Elizabeth Barrett
Browning.
• Seek not outside yourself for success lies within. Mary Lou Cook.
• Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. Thomas
Dewar.
• Success is determined by those who prove the impossible to be
possible. James W. Pence.
• Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier.

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• In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the impossible.


Miguel de Cervantes.
• Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln.
• Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. Winston Churchill.
• I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to
make yourself master of that line of work. Andrew Carnegie.
• The ungrateful or unthankful mind really denies that it receives at all,
and so cuts its connection with the Supreme. The grateful mind is
always looking toward the Supreme, is always open to receive from it,
and it will receive continually. Wallace D. Wattles.
• The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you
through anything. The second step is to start where you are. Norman
Vincent Peale.
• Success depends upon our previous preparations, and without such
preparations there is sure to be failure. Confucius.
• If you can command yourself, you can command the world. Chinese
proverb.
• We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own
fortune. Appius Caecus.
• As a rule, he or she that has the most information will have the
greatest success in life. Benjamin Disraeli.
• Please don’t nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Don’t set goals far
beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the
best way that you know how and the Lord will accept your effort.
Gordon B. Hinkley.
• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes.
• Women will never be as successful as men because they do not have
wives to advise them. Dick Van Dyke.
• Nothing will come of nothing; we must dare mighty things. William
Shakespeare.
• Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of
yourself as a success! Joyce Brothers.
• History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually
encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They
won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeat. B.
C. Forbes.
• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve
imagined. Henry David Thoreau.

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• If anyone else can do it, or make it in life, so can I. Thomas J. Vilord.


• It is not enough to have a good mind; the important thing is to use it
well. Rene Descartes.
• Do not let the future be held hostage by the past. Neal A. Maxwell.
• No one knows what he can do until he tries. Publilius Syrus.
• Each problem has in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally
dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by
people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.
Joseph Sugarman.
• The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of
mind. Wayne W. Dyer.
• Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open. Thomas
Dewar.
• A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds;
it seems to magically connect us to all sort of serendipitous
opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed. Earl
Nightingale.
• The measure of a person’s strength is not what God is willing to give
him, but what he, himself, has the will and intelligence to appropriate
to himself. God gives you all there is. Your only question is how
much to take of the unlimited supply. Wallace D. Wattles.
• If you make the actions of each day successful, the sum total of your
life cannot be failure. A great success is the result of doing a large
number of little things, and doing each one in a perfectly successful
way. Wallace D. Wattles.
• I never expect to lose. Even when I am the underdog, I still prepare a
victory speech. H. Jackson Browne.
• Success is not final and failure is not fatal. It is the courage to
continue that counts. Winston Churchill.
• For a righteous man falls seven times and rises again. Proverbs 24:16.
• Success doesn’t come to you; you go to it. Marva Collins.
• The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your
capabilities and become the best you can possibly be. Thomas J.
Vilord.
• Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the
mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself, ‘Nothing is
impossible!!!’ Norman Vincent Peale.
• Success as I see it is a result, not a goal. Gustave Flaubert.

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• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Gagehot.
• I am not telling you that achieving success is going to be easy; I am
telling you that it’s going to be worth it! Art Williams.
• It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward
of taking time to do anything well. Joseph Ross.
• For with God all things are possible. Mark 10:27.
• You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for
the better. Jim Rohn.
• Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong,
because then you will lose your ability to learn new things and move
forward in your life. David M. Burns.
• Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of
yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit
it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture! Norman
Vincent Peale.
• Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape
those who dream only by night. Edgar Allan Poe.
• There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh
and blood tomorrow. Victor Hugo.
• Don’t go through life. GROW through life. Eric Butterworth.
• Vision is the art of seeing things that are not yet visible. Jonathan
Swift.
• A desire to be in charge of our own lives, and a need for control is
born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success,
that we take control. Robert F. Bennett.
• The truth is that all of us can attain the greatest success and happiness
possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to its
greatest extent. Smiley Blanton.
• You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Les Brown.
• Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is
persistence. They are willing to spend more time accomplishing a task
and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There is a very
positive relationship between people’s ability to accomplish any task
and the time they are willing to spend on it. Joyce Brothers.
• It takes twenty years to make an overnight success. Eddie Cantor.

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• The great successful men of the world have used their imagination.
They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details and
steadily building upon it. Robert J. Collier.
• The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his
opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli.
• To succeed you need to find something to hold onto, something to
motivate you, and something to inspire you. Tony Dorsett.
• To dream anything you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human
mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the
human will. To trust yourself to test your limits, that is the courage to
succeed. Bernard Edmunds.
• One sound idea is all you need to achieve success. Napoleon Hill.
• The greatest happiness is to transform your feelings into actions.
Madame de Stael.
• It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. Harvey
Samuel Firestone.
• Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success. Henry Ford.
• Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing
as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the
future is to create it. Michael J. Gelb.
• Losers visualize the penalties of failure; winners visualize the rewards
of success. William S. Gilbert.
• There are no speed limits on the road to success. David W. Johnson.
• An inventor fails 999 times and, if he succeeds once, he’s victorious.
He treats his failures as practice shots. Charles Franklin Kettering.
• Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings. C. Archie
Danielson.
• Learn something new every single day. You will never get old if you
do. Lois Bey.
• Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough and I can
single-handedly move the world. Archimedes.
• What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all
of our tomorrows. Alexandra Stoddard.
• The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many
accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more. Ed Parker.
• ‘I can’t do it’ never accomplished anything; ‘I will try’ has performed
miracles. George P. Burnham.

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• The great accomplishments of man resulted from the transmission of


ides, into enthusiasm, into actions. Thomas J. Watson.
• Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly
you are doing the impossible. Francis of Assisi.
• There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you can alter the
difficulties, or you can alter yourself to meet the difficulties. Phyllis
Bottoms.
• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble,
but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be
successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale.
• Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation
for their victories. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
Michael Korda.
• Success consists of getting up just one more time that you fall. Oliver
Goldsmith.
• To have more than you’ve got, become more than you are. Jim Rohn.
• The only way to excellence is to consistently improve yourself every
single day. Thomas J. Vilord.
• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a
different way. Dale Carnegie.
• In the marathon of life, success calls for dedication to the goal,
perseverance, compassion for my fellow man, and faith in God. John
A. Kelley.
• Its kind of fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney.
• Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile,
personal goals. Paul Meyer.
• Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Jim
Rohn.
• Happiness is not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of
achievement and in the thrill of creative effort. Franklin Delano
Roosevelt.
• The goal of every married couple indeed and every Christian home
should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor, and the Guide.
Paul Sadler.
• When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams
that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, it is then
when we truly live. Greg Anderson.

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• Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into
manifestation through holding to the vision, and often comes apparent
and temporary failure and discouragement just before the big
achievement. Florence Scoved Shinn.
• There is no finer sensation in life than that which comes with victory
over one’s self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing
aside all of your old internal enemies as you advance. Vash Young.
• Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of
courage and true progress. Lloyd Alexander.
• He who labors diligently need never despair, for all things are
accomplished by diligence and labor. Menander.
• To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be
thought. Tom Robbins.
• The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that
you can become. Harold Taylor.
• Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of
their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it is amazing at what
they can accomplish. Sam Walton.
• No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.
Henry Emerson Forsdick.
• If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary for victory.
William Hazlitt.
• Your sensitivity to the power of a Positive Mental Attitude — PMA
— can never be overvalued. Your cheerfulness helps people defeat
cynicism, fear, futility and despair. PMA can inspire a shared vision
and help you enlist others to make a difference. It can calm turmoil,
confusion, and chaos. You ability to uplift people's spirits when they
feel overburdened or negative is one of the most powerful
motivational tools you can possess. Sheila Murray Bethel.
• Those who want to succeed will find a way; those who don’t will find
an excuse. Leo Aguila.
• No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement. Greg Henry
Quinn.
• Success is not all about money. It’s about having the resources and the
ability to live the life that you have personally dreamed of. Pete Zafra.
• To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try. Thomas
Jefferson.
• One of the most important principles of success is developing the
habit of going the extra mile. Napoleon Hill.

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• The philosophy of the rich versus the poor is this: the rich invest their
money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest
what is left. Jim Rohn.
• The three Ps of success: passion, persistence, and patience. Doug
Bronson.
• He has achieved success if he has lived well, laughed often, and loved
much. Bessie Stanley.
• No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn
starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have
to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that
we need to learn to achieve our goals. Brian Tracy.
• It takes a person who is wide-awake to make his dream come true.
Roger Ward Babson.
• Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been
hurt, and dance like nobody is watching you. Mark Twain.
• In fact, there’s no more powerful directing force in human behaviour
than belief. In essence, human history is the history of human belief.
Anthony Robbins.
• Care about what you’re capable of. Care about what you create and
what you want to do. Work from a set of dynamic, evolving, enabling
goals that will help you do what you want, not what someone else has
done. There will always be someone who has more than you. There
will always be someone who has less. None of that matters. You need
to judge yourself by your goals and nothing else. Anthony Robbins.
• To say that there is no source of intelligence that we may call God is
like saying Webster’s Dictionary is the result of an explosion in a
print factory and everything came together perfectly and in balance.
Anthony Robbins.
• The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead
of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you are in control
of your life. If you don’t, life controls you. Anthony Robbins.
• Give me a lever long enough and a prop strong enough. I can single-
handedly move the world. Archimedes.
• There is nothing that training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It
can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate
good ones; it can lift men to angelship. Mark Twain.
• Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a
rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are
set on work, and guided. John Locke.

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• We need to realize that most of what we do, day in and day out, is ask
and answer questions. So if we want to change the quality of our lives,
we should change our habitual questions. These questions direct our
focus, and therefore how we think and how we feel. Anthony Robbins.
• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own
reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he
contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous
structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a
little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. Albert
Einstein.
• A genuine quality of life comes from consistent, quality questions.
Remember, your brain, like the genie, will give you whatever you ask
of it. So be careful what you ask for – whatever you look for you’ll
find. Anthony Robbins.
• Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton.
• Remember that your values – whatever they are – are the compass that
is guiding you to your ultimate destiny. They are creating your life
path by guiding you to make certain decisions and take certain actions
consistently. Anthony Robbins.
• Imagination unleashed provides us a sense of certainty and vision that
goes far beyond the limitations of the past. Anthony Robbins.
• You want to learn from your past, not live in it – focus on the things
that empower you. Anthony Robbins.
• Limited references create a limited life. If you want to expand your
life, you must expand your references by pursuing ideas and
experiences that wouldn’t be a part of your life if you didn’t
consciously seek them out. Remember, rarely does a good idea
interrupt you; you must actively seek it. Empowering ideas and
experiences must be pursued. Anthony Robbins.
• Each day that we live, we’re taking in new information, ideas,
concepts, experiences, and sensations. We need to consciously stand
at the doors of our minds to make sure that whatever we’re allowing
to enter will cause our lives to be enriched, that the experiences we
pursue will add to our stockpile of possibility. Anthony Robbins.
• Remember, it’s the moments of our lives that shape us. It’s up to us to
pursue and create the moments that will lift us and not limit us.
Anthony Robbins.

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• Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to
evaporate. Albert Schweitzer.
• The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart. Mencius.
• Life is a balance between giving and receiving, between taking care of
yourself and taking care of others. Yes, give some of your time,
capital and energy to those who truly need it – but also be willing to
give to yourself. And do so with joy, not with guilt. You don’t have to
take the weight of the world on your shoulders. Anthony Robbins.
• The answer to reiterated lie must be reiterated truth. Gardner Hunting.
• Genius is clear vision of truth – nothing more nor less. Gardner
Hunting.
• Right thinking is living in ‘the Kingdom of God’. Gardner Hunting.
• The greatest question that the human mind ever formed is ‘Why?’
Insist on having the truth. Gardner Hunting.
• Truth is one-indivisible whole, omnipresent, omnipotent. Truth is
God. Gardner Hunting.
• My work in life is to express God; to let God express Himself through
me. Gardner Hunting.
• If I want God to speak through my mouth, I must first let Him think
through my intelligence. Gardner Hunting.
• You don’t blame a miner for shouting in mad delight when he
discovers gold. Well, why shouldn’t I be fanatically joyous when I
look into Heaven? Gardner Hunting.
• No one is so unpopular as he who begins to be unlike the rest. But no
one receives such rewards as he who persists in it! ...Salvation itself
lies in being different. Gardner Hunting.
• Instead of trying to provide material things for ourselves and leaving
God to look after our spiritual affairs, we should attend to our spiritual
affairs and let God take care of our material interests. Gardner
Hunting.
• Peace is not mere passivity, resignation, inactivity. It is utter well-
being, conscious and unconscious. Peace is heaven. Gardner Hunting.
• You can either be the captive or the captain of your thoughts. Denis
Waitley.
• In order to feel good physically and do good in the outer world, you
need to get your head together with constructive thinking – not
superficial lip service, but dedicated learning of new, healthy
responses to the stimuli of life. Denis Waitley.

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• Positive self-awareness is realizing that each human being on earth is


a person with equal rights to fulfill his or her own potential in life.
Denis Waitley.
• Open up your lenses to the possibilities and alternatives available in
your life. Change your attitude and your lifestyle and your many
environments will change automatically. Understand your own
uniqueness. Appreciate the differences in others. Relax and learn to
respond positively to stress. Change for the better that which can be
changed. Remove from your presence those negative influences that
cannot be changed. Denis Waitley.
• To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes
and look at the failures and negatives in our lives only as corrective
feedback to get us on target again. Denis Waitley.
• All individuals are what they are – and where they are – as a
composite result of all their own doings. It is true that we are all God-
created – but we all also are ‘self-molded’. Although our innate
characteristics and environments are given to us initially, the decisions
we make determine whether we win or lose our particular game of
life. Denis Waitley.
• There should be a Statue of Responsibility standing in Los Angeles or
San Francisco Harbor, to match the Statue of Liberty. Denis Waitley.
• We all have the potential and the opportunity for success in our lives.
It takes just as much energy and effort for a bad life as it does for a
good life. Denis Waitley.
• Plan the work and work the plan. Denis Waitley.
• What we ponder and what we think about sets the course of our life.
Any day we wish; we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any
day we wish, we can open the book that will open our mind to new
knowledge. Any day we wish, we can start a new activity. Any day
we wish, we can start the process of life change. We can do it
immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.
We can also do nothing. We can pretend rather than perform. And if
the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we
can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labor, entertainment
over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The
choices are ours to make. But while we curse the effect, we continue
to nourish the cause. As Shakespeare uniquely observed, "The fault is
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our past choices. We have both the ability and the responsibility to
make better choices beginning today. Jim Rohn.
• You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win,
prepare to win, and expect to win. Zig Ziglar.
• Choose not to join an easy crowd where expectations are low or where
they do not care. You will not grow. Go where expectations are high.
Go where you are challenged to study, to read, to change, to develop,
and to learn the next skill. It is the challenge that creates the muscle,
the mental muscle, the vocal muscle, the actual physical muscle to
become better, stronger, wiser, and more unique. Jim Rohn.
• On a foggy night, if all you can see is one hundred feet. First walk the
one hundred feet and then you will find that you can see another
hundred feet. In the beginning you can’t see the two hundred feet, you
must take the steps to discover what is beyond your view. Jim Rohn.
• For things to change, you have to change. For things to get better, you
have to get better. Jim Rohn.
• The best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter F. Drucker.
• The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius.
• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it
cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform
you in a moment and offer you more joy than any material possession
could. Barbara D’Angelis.
• A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of
those intensely right words…the resulting effect is physical as well as
spiritual, and electrically prompt. Mark Twain.
• Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what
he does from day to day to lead himself. Thomas J. Watson.
• When you are through changing, you are through. Bruce Barton.
• Leadership is the ability to significantly influence the thoughts,
feelings, actions and behaviors of those you lead. Anthony Robbins.
• Great leaders create value systems and Models of the World. They
guide those they lead even in their absence – they create a culture.
Anthony Robbins.
• In every success story, you find someone who has made a courageous
decision. Peter F. Drucker.
• Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no
time to criticize others. Christian D. Larson.

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• All change is nothing but finding a new pattern of thinking, feeling


and behaving that meets a person’s needs on a deeper level than the
previous pattern. Anthony Robbins.
• Remember, there is always a higher motive, a global solution:
something that will motivate a person more than their pain. Anthony
Robbins.
• The strongest force in the human personality is the need to stay
consistent with one’s identity. If we shift identity, then we create
long-term, lasting change. Anthony Robbins.
• One of the most important principles to creating an extraordinary life
is to be yourself. To do this, however, first requires that you know
yourself. Anthony Robbins.
• While achieving can provide many wonderful things, the true measure
of an extraordinary life is its level of absolute fulfillment. Anthony
Robbins.
• Whatever you ask, your brain will provide an answer; whatever you
look for, you’ll find. Anthony Robbins.
• The past does not equal the future unless you live there. Anthony
Robbins.
• No man is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus.
• If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity
to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. Mahatma Gandhi.
• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that
we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that
most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You
are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t see the world. There is
nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel
insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We
were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not
just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As
we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically
liberates others. Marianne Williamson.
• Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. Benjamin
Franklin.
• Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important
than any other one thing. Abraham Lincoln.

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• Keep your face to the sunshine and you never see the shadow. Helen
Keller.
• I do the best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep
doing so until the end. Abraham Lincoln.
• Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry
Ford.
• You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. Zig Ziglar.
• Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments. Jim
Rohn.
• Not everything that counts can be measured. Not everything that can
be measured counts. Albert Einstein.
• Don’t waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work
before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s
duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• A Best-Kept Secret of Total Success is that our minds cannot tell the
difference between real experience and one that is vividly and
repeatedly imagined. Denis Waitley.
• Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are
an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper
resources and draw the best out of life. Harvey Mackay.
• If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If
you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you.
Whatever good things we build end up building us. Jim Rohn.
• The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined
goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a
day with words, pictures, and emotions as if we've already achieved
them. Denis Waitley.
• The real power of goals lies not in the goals themselves but in the
process we go through in formulating them; they cause us to deeply
consider our purpose, and give that sense of purpose a very specific
focus. Neecie Moore.
• You can change your entire life by changing the order of priority and
importance of your goals. Brian Tracy.
• A problem is a chance for you to do your best. Duke Ellington.
• Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of
pleasure you derive from what you do. Michael Korda.
• Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to
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Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.
Grace Speare.
• Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal...if you will
only do each day the things you know you should do each day and do
them as successfully as you possibly can, you can rest assured that
you will be successful all the years of your life. Earl Nightingale.
• Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste
Rodin.
• Mastery is what you learn after you think you know it all. Keith
Cunningham.
• Wisdom is knowing what to do. Integrity is doing it. Keith
Cunningham.
• Wealth gives you more options. Keith Cunningham.
• Change your questions to change your life. Keith Cunningham.
• Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus.
• Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you
grow. Les Brown.
• We were not created to be eaten by anxiety, but to walk erect, free,
unafraid in a world where there is work to do, truth to seek, love to
give and win. Joseph Ford Newton.
• Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to
follow virtue and knowledge. Dante Alighieri.
• The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the
most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most,
was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence,
they all and they alone, were and are endowed. Dante Alighieri.
• Things turn out for the best for the people who make the best of the
way things turn out. John Wooden.
• Your power is proportional to your ability to relax. David Allen.
• You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
Harry Firestone.
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Henry De Bracton.
• Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi.
• Recognition is the greatest motivator. Gerard C. Eakedale.
• Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold
well. Josh Billings.
• Good humour is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in
society. William Makepeace.

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• All your dreams come true, if you have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney.
• It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney.
• Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart, and you’ll never walk
alone. Oscar Hammerstein II.
• Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. Albert Camus.
• Let your thoughts to be ruled by principle, and then live up to your
thoughts. Wallace D. Wattles.
• You may not be able to control the situation, but you can always
control your reaction. Austin Mcgonigle.
• The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a
person's determination. Tommy Lasorda.
• To earn more, you must learn more. Brian Tracy.
• Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your
strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward
the stars. Brian Tracy.
• Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes
away except God. Mother Theresa.
• Purpose is the focused pursuit of a single goal, while intent is the
decision to act. George J. Morse.
• The key to sustaining motivation is staying focused on your vision,
and remaining firmly entrenched in your belief that all things are
possible. George J. Morse.
• You may have been on the passing side or the failing side of the test,
or maybe you have yet to be tested. In any case, when you work
toward the realization of your dreams, the bigger the vision, the harder
your test is bound to be; and believe me, you will be tested. The good
news is that by deepening your understanding of commitment today,
you can pass the tests you will face tomorrow; thus allowing you to
find solutions and overcome obstacles, so you can effectively stay
your course. George J. Morse.
• Successful people don’t have fewer problems than unsuccessful
people. We all face adversity. We all have problems. What determines
our success is how we respond to the problems we face. Do we run
and hide when problems arise, avoiding them and hoping they will go
away, or do we face those problems head on and get busy solving
them? The choice is ours. In the end, history will judge us not by the
adversity we face, but instead by how we respond in the face of
adversity. George J. Morse.

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• When I look back on all the problems I faced in my own life, I realize
that if I had never encountered those problems and worked to solve
them, I would not be as capable as I am today. I now understand that
every problem I solve makes me a stronger person, and better at
something. I learn from mistakes, gain experience, become more
aware, become more productive, gain confidence, and feel more
successful. As a result, my view of what a problem is has changed
over the years. I find myself looking at problems from a completely
different angle – a different point of view. I don’t see them as
problems anymore. From this new perspective, instead of seeing
problems, I see opportunities for improvement. George J. Morse.
• Obviously, owners take better care of their possessions than non-
owners do. People care more about things they own because they’ve
spent their hard-earned money to get those things. Owners have a
vested interest in the things they’ve purchased, and have a strong
desire to protect their investment. The very nature of ownership brings
about a conscious mind-set focused on the best possible performance
for the care and protection of an investment. Simply stated, people
who own something will do a better job caring for it than those who
do not. George J. Morse.
• Being the owner of your results allows you to focus on your
performance, to own up to your part in the outcome. You don’t need
to waste time arguing about who’s to blame; just gather the
information you need to make an accurate assessment of how your
actions contributed to the poor results, and you’re done. Then deal
with the consequences caused by your mistake, correct whatever it is
you did wrong, and in no time you’ll be back on the road to success,
as if those poor results never happened… If you are going to take
ownership of your results and hold yourself accountable for your
mistakes, then it’s only fair to recognize your accomplishments, and
allow yourself to feel good about them. In fact, it is necessary. Failing
to see the good in what you’ve done, can be just as detrimental to your
success, as failing to admit your mistakes. If you are not aware of
what works, how can it be duplicated? ...Then allow yourself to feel
good about what you have accomplished to that point. The best part
about ownership is enjoying the profits. George J. Morse.
• The way out of a trap is to study the trap itself, and learn how it is
built. You do this by taking the thing apart, piece by piece. The trap
can't trap you if it has been taken to pieces. The result is freedom.
Bhante Gunaratna.

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• Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the


ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to
be found only in studying the exemplary. Warren G. Bennis.
• Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent
people can get what they want through their own efforts.
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of
others to achieve their greatest success. Stephen Covey.
• You must remain focused on your journey to greatness. Les Brown.
• Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an
unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of
knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to
it. Emily Hilburn Sell.
• Don’t be misled by a false notion of obligation or duty. You can owe
no possible obligation or duty to others which should prevent you
from making the most of yourself. Wallace D. Wattles.
• May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift.
• Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Oliver
Wendell Holmes.
• I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness
depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the
nature of those events themselves. Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt.
• Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogy.
• I have from an early age abjured from the use of meat. Leonardo da
Vinci.
• My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was
frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I
made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker
comprehension. Benjamin Franklin.
• In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection
with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
• Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you
are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment
has to offer. Barbara De Angelis.
• First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to
others. Thomas Kempis.
• This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with
truth, and hatred with love. Peace Pilgrim.

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• Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state


of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy
attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Norman Vincent Peale.
• The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and
interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within
ourselves, we have to get excited. Earl Nightingale.
• Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to
our best. Joseph B. Wirthlin.
• Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of
our neighbors. Henry David Thoreau.
• Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of
action which is to the advantage of that company. Napoleon Hill.
• The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but
what they become by it. John Ruskin.
• The fear of the Lord – that is wisdom, and to shun evil is
understanding. Job 28:28.
• It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance,
sweeps away all obstacles. Claude M. Bristol.
• Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but
from doing something worthwhile. Wilfred T. Grenfell.
• Everyone wants to be appreciated. So if you appreciate someone,
don’t keep it a secret. Mary Kay Ash.
• Choice is the engine of our evolution. Gary Zukav.
• Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is
already there. Will Smith.
• Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen. Hebrews 11:1.
• What you choose to focus your mind on is critical because you will
become what you think about most of the time. Noel Peebles.
• You are never given a wish without also being given the power to
make it come true. Richard Bach.
• In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give
out completes the circle and comes back to us. Flora Edwards.
• A goal properly set is halfway reached. Zig Ziglar.
• A positive attitude is perhaps more important at home than anywhere
else. As spouses and parents, one of our most vital roles is to help
those we love feel good about themselves. Keith Harrell.

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• The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the
ability to overcome bad luck. Channing Pollock.
• If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and
become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams.
• Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. Fernando
Flores.
• If we take care of the inches we will not have to worry about the
miles. Hartley Coleridge.
• Every body in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure
way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't
depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions. Dale
Carnegie.
• It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than
anything else, will affect its successful outcome. William James.
• The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve
change amid order. Alfred N. Whitehead.
• The history of free men is never really written by chance but by
choice; their choice! Dwight D. Eisenhower.
• You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is
too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done. Chuck
Yeager.
• Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just
below the conscious level. Joyce Brothers.
• Intuition is perception beyond the physical senses that is meant to
assist you. Gary Zukav.
• Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, and then leave it
behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant
of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different
person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched
hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed. Eileen Caddy.
• We find the instrument for the knowledge of God in ourselves, but we
find God everywhere. Rudolph Steiner.
• Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be
careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. W.
Clement Stone.
• Things are only impossible until they're not. Jean-Luc Picard.
• What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of
them. Gary Zukav.

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• One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the


choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape
ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we
make are ultimately our own responsibility. Eleanor Roosevelt.
• Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for
the greatness you can ultimately achieve. Les Brown.
• It's time to start living the life you've imagined. Henry James.
• Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. Thomas
Carlyle.
• Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work. David Sarnoff.
• There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they
exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. Denis Waitley.
• For behold, the kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17:21.
• One’s self-image is very important because if that’s in good shape,
then you can do anything, or practically anything. John Gielgud.
• No-limit people are so in charge that they can trust their instincts, be
childlike, be creative, do anything that makes sense to them and make
their lives into what they really believe they want for themselves.
Wayne Dyer.
• You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest
dreams, but remember this, nothing works unless you do. Nido
Qubein.
• Some things have to be believed to be seen. Ralph Hodgson.
• Use your good judgment in all situations. Contents of the entire
Nordstrom Employee Manual.
• You are what you are and where you are because of what's gone into
your mind; you can change what you are, you can change where you
are, by changing what goes into your mind. Zig Ziglar.
• Results come in proportion to enthusiasm applied. David Schwartz.
• The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what
direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
• Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Zig Ziglar.
• Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of
yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit
it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture. Norman
Vincent Peale.
• Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of
pleasure you derive from what you do. Michael Korda.

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• The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done
you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Russell Lynes.
• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker.
• The Master may be defined as: "Coordination of knowledge and
effort, in a spirit of harmony between two or more people, for the
attainment of a definite purpose. Napoleon Hill.
• There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge;
both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought. Napoleon Hill.
• Success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis. If the thing
you wish to do is right and you believe in it, go ahead and do it! Put
your dream across and never mind what “they” say if you meet with
temporary defeat, for “they”, perhaps, do not know that EVERY
FAILURE BRINGS WITH IT THE SEED OF AN EQUIVALENT
SUCCESS. Napoleon Hill.
• There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being
READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing until he believes he
can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or
wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Napoleon Hill.
• Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand
abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and
poverty. Napoleon Hill.
• DESIRE BACKED BY FAITH knows no such word as impossible.
Napoleon Hill.
• The emotions of FAITH, LOVE and SEX are the most powerful of all
the major positive emotions. When the three are blended, they have
the effect of “coloring” the vibration of thought in such a way that it
instantly reaches the subconscious mind, where it is changed into its
spiritual equivalent, the only form that induces a response from the
Infinite Intelligence. Napoleon Hill.
• Repetition of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known
method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith…FAITH IS
A STATE OF MIND WHICH MAY BE INDUCED BY
AUTOSUGGESTION. Napoleon Hill.
• FAITH is the “eternal elixir” which gives life, power, and action to
the impulse of thought! Napoleon Hill.
• ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED,
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translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.


Napoleon Hill.
• Just as electricity will turn the wheels of industry, and render useful
service if used constructively or snuff out life if wrongly used, so will
the law of auto-suggestion lead you to peace and prosperity or down
into the valley of misery, failure and death according to your degree
of understanding and application of it. Napoleon Hill.
• Happiness is found in doing. Not merely in possessing. Napoleon Hill.
• Discipline is remembering what you want. David Campbell.
• The more people I serve, the more rich I become. Robert Kiyosaki.
• The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving:
it’s in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to
others, I’m caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than
giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Ram
Dass.
• In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they
won was over themselves... Self-discipline with all of them came first.
Harry Truman.
• Commitment means getting up if you trip along the way. It means
putting one foot in front of another, even if the going gets tough. It
means no detours or shortcuts - no looking back. Just keep moving
forward on the road to your own success. Brian Tracy.
• The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose. J.
Martin Kohe.
• Fear, uncertainty, and doubt are, and always have been, the greatest
enemies of success and happiness…Act as if you are fearless. Act as
if you cannot fail. Brian Tracy.
• Acceptance of responsibility is part of great mental health. It also
creates an attitude of openness to improvement in your own
performance. It makes you the "boss" of your own company: You,
Inc. Brian Tracy.
• You can learn anything you need to learn to achieve any goal you can
set for yourself; there are no limits. Brian Tracy.
• Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson.
• Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of
your energies on a limited set of targets. Nido Qubein.
• If there's anything I would like to be remembered for it's that I helped
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succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about
them. Jack Welch.
• God seems to throw Himself on the side of the man who knows
exactly what he wants, if he is determined to get JUST THAT!
Napoleon Hill.
• If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can
become it. William Arthur Ward.
• The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic
experience. Emily Dickinson.
• What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for
it-would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In
order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must
truly appreciate what you already have. Ralph Marston.
• The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the
losers. Brian Tracy.
• I'm a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more
I have of it. Thomas Jefferson.
• My experience has taught me that the next best thing to being truly
great is to emulate the great, by feeling and action, as nearly as
possible. Napoleon Hill.
• Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either
control your mind or it controls you…The most practical of all
methods for controlling the mind is keeping it busy with a definite
purpose, backed by a definite plan. Napoleon Hill.
• Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in
the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Denis Waitley.
• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. Albert
Einstein.
• It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at
the top. Arnold Bennett.
• Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have
no choice but to believe with you. Cynthia Kersey.
• There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will
follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.
Herbert Prochnow.
• Your mission can take a few hours a week or your whole life.
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• Everyday leaders are everywhere. They are you and others like you
who want to make a contribution...Their missions may be on a more
modest scale than those of world leaders, but they are equally
important...They offer us easily accessible motivations, hope and
inspiration for daily living. Sheila Murray Bethel.
• Have the courage to question your preconceived ideas, prejudices, and
conditioned responses. When you examine these roadblocks, you can
open a floodgate of possibilities. Sheila Murray Bethel.
• When we think we send out vibrations of a fine ethereal substance,
which are as real as the vibrations manifesting light, heat, sound,
electricity and magnetism. That these vibrations are not evident to our
five senses is no proof that they do not exist…If we fully
comprehended the truth of the statement and the natural consequences
of the truth back of it, we should understand many things which have
appeared dark to us, and would be able to use the wonderful power,
Thought Force, just as we use any other manifestation of energy.
William W. Atkinson.
• Not only do our thought waves influence ourselves and others, but
they have a drawing power – they attract to us the thoughts of others,
things, circumstances, people, “luck” in accord with the character of
the thought uppermost in our minds…A strong thought or a thought
long continued, will make us the center of attraction for the
corresponding thought waves of others. Like attracts like in the
Thought World – as ye sow so shall ye reap. William W. Atkinson.
• Many of the “stray thoughts” which come to us are just reflections or
answering vibrations to some strong thought sent out by another. But
unless our minds are attuned to receive it, the thought will not likely
affect us…The man who believes thoroughly in himself and maintains
a positive strong mental attitude of Confidence and Determination is
not likely to be affected by the adverse and negative thoughts of
Discouragement and Failure emanating from the minds of other
persons in whom these last qualities predominate. William W.
Atkinson.
• The man who thinks that all is evil is apt to see much evil, and will be
brought into contact with others who will seem to prove his theory.
And the man who looks for good in everything and everybody will be
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thought. We generally see that for which we look. William W.


Atkinson.
• Development of the will is very much like the development of a
muscle – a matter of practice and gradual improvement. At first it is
apt to be tiresome, but at each trial one grows stronger until the new
strength becomes real and permanent. William W. Atkinson.
• Man can build up his mind and make it what he wills. In fact we are
mind-building every hour of our lives, either consciously or
unconsciously. William W. Atkinson.
• Realize that there is nothing to Fear – that Worry and Fear never
helped anyone, and never will. Realize that Fear paralyzes effort, and
that Courage promotes activity. William W. Atkinson.
• A man may worry himself to death and yet nothing will be
accomplished, but let that man transmute his worry and discontent
into Desire and Interest, coupled with a belief that he is able to make
the change – the “I Can and I Will” idea – then something happens.
William W. Atkinson.
• Your mind is given you for your good and for your own use – not to
use you…There is only room for one thing at a time in the focus of
attention; so put all your attention upon one thought, and the others
will sneak off. William W. Atkinson.
• If confronted with the question: “Which of these two things should I
do?” the best answer is: “I will do that which I would like to become a
habit with me”. William W. Atkinson.
• The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded.
Ever afterwards it has a tendency to fold in the same crease – unless
we make a new crease or fold, when it will follow the last lines. And
the creases are habits – every time we make one it is so much easier
for the mind to fold along the same crease afterward. Let us make our
mental creases in the right direction. William W. Atkinson.
• The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and
feelings is to cultivate the positive ones. The positive thought is the
strongest one, and will in time starve out the negative one by
withdrawing from it the nourishment necessary for its existence.
William W. Atkinson.
• The mind works on the subconscious plane, remember, and almost
always along the lines of the ruling passion or desire. It will fix up
things, and patch together plans and schemes, and when you need
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• Children instinctively recognize that nothing is too good for them.


They want all that is in sight to play with, and they seem to feel that
the things are theirs by right. And that is the condition of mind that we
seekers after the Divine Adventure must cultivate. Unless we become
as little children we cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. William W.
Atkinson.
• Every thought brings into action certain physical tissue, parts of the
brain, nerve or muscle. This produces an actual physical change in the
construction of the tissue. Therefore it is only necessary to have a
certain number of thoughts on a given subject in order to bring about a
complete change in the physical organization of a man. Charles F.
Haanel.
• We cannot express powers that we do not possess. The only way by
which we may secure possession of power is to become conscious of
power, and we can never become conscious of power until we learn
that all power is from within. Charles F. Haanel.
• The world without is a reflection of the world within. What appears
without is what has been found within. In the world within may be
found infinite Wisdom, infinite Power, infinite Supply of all that is
necessary, waiting for unfoldment, development and expression. If we
recognize these potentialities in the world within they will take form
in the world without…The world within is the cause, the world
without the effect; to change the effect you must change the cause.
Charles F. Haanel.
• Mental efficiency is contingent upon harmony; discord means
confusion; therefore he who would acquire power must be in harmony
with Natural Law. Charles F. Haanel.
• Leaders that make a difference are 'big thinkers.' They know that
seeing things others can't see is not only a quality of leadership; it is a
responsibility. Sheila Murray Bethel.
• If you are a big thinker....you have faith in the desire of other people
to do well, to make a contribution, to have a meaningful life. You
know that most people don't want to feel like losers. Your faith in
them can make a world of difference in how they perform because
your faith acts as a catalyst to their courage. Sheila Murray Bethel.
• Big thinking always precedes big achievement. Sheila Murray Bethel.

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• Our difficulties are largely due to confused ideas and ignorance of our
true interests. The great task is to discover the laws of nature to which
we are to adjust ourselves. Charles F. Haanel.
• Thought is energy. Active thought is active energy; concentrated
thought is concentrated energy. Thought concentrated on a definite
purpose becomes power. Charles F. Haanel.
• Not only can it impress other minds, but it can direct the subconscious
mind. In this way the conscious mind becomes the responsible ruler
and guardian of the subconscious mind. It is this high function which
can completely reverse conditions in your life. Charles F. Haanel.
• Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of
thought as in the world of visible and material things. Mind is the
master weaver, both of the interior garment of character and the outer
garment of circumstance. James Allen.
• Relaxation is an absolute necessity in order to allow the mental
faculties to exercise the greatest freedom... The Solar Plexus will then
be ready to function and you will be surprised at the result. Charles F.
Haanel.
• Amid all the mysteries by which we are surrounded, nothing is more
certain than that we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal
Energy from which all things proceed. Herbert Spender.
• We cannot give unless we get; we cannot be helpful unless we are
strong. The Infinite is not bankrupt and we who are the representatives
of the Infinite power should not be bankrupts either, and if we wish to
be of service to others we must have power and more power, but to
get it we must give it; we must be of service. The more we give the
more we shall get; we must become a channel whereby the Universal
can express activity. The Universal is constantly seeking to express
itself, to be of service, and it seeks the channel whereby it can find the
greatest activity, where it can do the most good, where it can be of
greatest service to mankind. Charles F. Haanel.
• Avoid counterfeits. Build firm foundations for your consciousness
upon forces which flow direct from the Infinite source, the Universal
Mind of which you are the image and likeness. Charles F. Haanel.
• He who sees his Lord within every creature, deathlessly dwelling
amidst the mortal: that man sees truly. Bhagavad-Gita.
• The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart, head and
hands. Robert M. Pirsig.

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• The individual is but the channel for the differentiation of the


Universal. Charles F. Haanel.
• He highest moral ideal is the greatest good to the greatest number.
Charles F. Haanel.
• The architect, when he plans a 30-storey building, has every line and
detail pictured in advance. The engineer, when he spans a chasm, first
ascertains the strength requirements of a million separate parts. They
see the end before a single step is taken; so you are to picture in your
mind what you want; you are sowing the seed, but before sowing any
seed you want to know what the harvest is to be. This is Idealization.
Then comes the process of Visualization and, finally, the third step, or
Materialization, will have been accomplished. Charles F. Haanel.
• Make the Mental Image; make it clear, distinct, perfect; hold it firmly;
the ways and means will develop; supply will follow the demand; you
will be led to do the right thing at the right time and in the right way.
Charles F. Haanel.
• Remember that majorities are always led, they never lead. Charles F.
Haanel.
• The three steps necessary to bring the Law of Attraction (i.e. The Law
of Cause and Effect) into operation are: Earnest Desire, Confident
Expectation and Firm Demand. Charles F. Haanel.
• It is the Law which makes the Universe one grand paean of Harmony.
If it were not for law, the Universe would be a Chaos instead of a
Cosmos. Good and evil are simply words which have been coined to
indicate the result of our action, or our compliance or not compliance
with this Law. Charles F. Haanel.
• To know the Truth is to be in harmony with the Infinite and
Omnipotent power. To know the Truth is, therefore, to connect
yourself with a power which is irresistible and which will sweep away
every kind of discord, inharmony, doubt or error of any kind, because
the “Truth is mighty and will prevail”. Charles F. Haanel.
• The way to fight darkness is with light, the way to fight cold is with
heat, the way to overcome evils is with good. Affirm the good and the
bad will vanish. Frederick Elias Andrews.
• Creation is the calling into existence of that which does not exist in
the objective world. Evolution is simply the unfolding of potentialities
involved in things which already exist. Charles F. Haanel.
• You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the
courage to dare; third, the faith to do. Charles F. Haanel.

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• You cannot change the Infinite, but you can come to an understanding
of Natural Laws. The reward of this understanding is a conscious
realization of your ability to adjust your thought faculties with the
Universal Thought which is Omnipresent. Your ability to cooperate
with this Omnipotence will indicate the degree of success with which
you meet. Charles F. Haanel.
• Thought impregnated with Love becomes invincible. It is the
combination of Thought and Love which forms the irresistible force,
called the Law of Attraction. Charles F. Haanel.
• A happy thought cannot exist in an unhappy consciousness; therefore
the consciousness must change and, as the consciousness changes, all
conditions necessary to meet the changed consciousness must
gradually change, in order to meet the requirements of the new
situation. Charles F. Haanel.
• Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your
energies on a limited set of targets. Nido Qubein.
• Education, advertising, corporate policy, civil law, and religious tenets
all need to be re-examined and updated by courageous leaders who
are willing to tackle tough or unpopular issues. You and I can make a
difference by questioning those things that do not seem ethical, by
speaking up and letting our views be known. The men and women
who put their lives on the line to bring about social change — the end
of slavery, the recognition of unions, women's right to vote, the end of
segregation, and nuclear disarmament — are good examples of people
who put ethics first. Our short history is an exciting one. We will
continue to have a bright future if we can encourage and produce
leaders who put ethics at the top of the list of leadership qualities. If
you are an ethical person you will attract others to you. If making a
difference means having great concern for ethics, you will be one of
those who lead. Sheila Murray Bethel.
• Truth invariably destroys error. We do not have to laboriously shovel
the darkness out; all that is necessary is to turn the light on. Charles F.
Haanel.
• Wealth should never be considered as an end, but simply as a means
of accomplishing an end. Success is contingent upon a higher ideal
than the mere accumulation of riches, and he who aspires to such
success must formulate an ideal for which he is willing to strive.
Charles F. Haanel.

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• Remember that fundamentally the subconscious is omnipotent; there


is no limit to the things that can be done when it is given the power to
act. Your degree of success is determined by the nature of your desire.
If the nature of your desire is in harmony with Natural Law or
Universal Mind, it will gradually emancipate the mind and give you
invincible courage. Charles F. Haanel.
• If you wish to eliminate fear, concentrate on courage. If you wish to
eliminate lack, concentrate on abundance. If you wish to eliminate
disease, concentrate on health. Charles F. Haanel.
• I believe people should study a little bit every day. It should become
habitual, like brushing your teeth, combing your hair, having a shower
or getting dressed. Study the mind, the laws of the universe and
paradigms. There's enough information on those subjects to keep a
person studying forever. I believe people should study a little bit every
day. It should become habitual, like brushing your teeth, combing
your hair, having a shower or getting dressed. Study the mind, the
laws of the universe and paradigms. There's enough information on
those subjects to keep a person studying forever. Bob Proctor.
• The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
Maya Angelou.
• Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented
people who encourage and inspire you. Brian Tracy.
• The spirit of you is you; without the spirit you would be nothing. It
becomes active through your recognition of it and its possibilities…
The one and only condition of spiritual power is use or recognition.
When you begin to perceive that the essence of the Universal is within
yourself – is you – you begin to do things; you begin to feel your
power; it is the fuel which fires the imagination; which lights the torch
of inspiration; which gives vitality to thought; which enables you to
connect with all the invisible forces of the Universe. It is this power
which will enable you to plan fearlessly, to execute masterfully…And
when we learn to recognize it, not only in ourselves, but in all persons,
events, things and circumstances we shall have found the “Kingdom
of Heaven” which we are told is “within” us…Spiritual Power is the
mightiest force in existence. Charles F. Haanel.
• When the individual mind touches the Universal Mind it receives all
the power it requires. This is the world within. Therefore, the more
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greater will be our power to control and master every condition.


Charles F. Haanel.
• Everything in the Universe is what it is by virtue of its rate of
vibration. Change the rate of vibration and you change the nature,
quality and form. The vast panorama of nature, both visible and
invisible, is being constantly changed by simply changing the rate of
vibration, and as thought is vibration we can also exercise this power.
We can change the vibration and thus produce any condition which
we desire to manifest in our bodies. Charles F. Haanel.
• We make money by making friends, and we enlarge our circle of
friends by making money for them, by helping them, by being of
service to them. The first law of success than is service and this in
turn is built on integrity and justice. Charles F. Haanel.
• What benefits one must benefit all. Charles F. Haanel.
• Spirituality is the most “practical” thing in the world – the only really
and absolutely “practical” thing that there is! Charles F. Haanel.
• The minute the spirit leaves the body, we are as nothing. Therefore,
the spirit is really, all there is of us. Charles F. Haanel.
• Man is the master of thought, the molder of character, and the maker
and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny. James Allen.
• Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and
growing the flowers and fruits which he requires so may a man tend
the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless and impure
thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of
right, useful and pure thoughts. James Allen.
• As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may
learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any
circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other
circumstances. James Allen.
• Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be
the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a
creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds
of his being out of which circumstances grow; he then become the
rightful master of himself. James Allen.
• The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that
is useless and impure. Suffering ceases for him who is pure. James
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• A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose


his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.
James Allen.
• There is no physician like cheerful thought to dissipate the ills of the
body; there is no comforter to compare with goodwill for dispersing
the shadows of grief and sorrow. James Allen.
• As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and
patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong
by exercising himself in right thinking. James Allen.
• Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the
result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an
indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary
knowledge of the laws and operations of thought. James Allen.
• Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points
the way. Florence Scovel Shinn.
• If you are willing and able to change, you can affect people,
situations, and systems. Sheila Murray Bethel.
• To be a change master you must first learn to handle change yourself.
Then you can take your skills, talents, and abilities and help others
change. Sheila Murray Bethel.
• A high level of faith in positive outcomes cannot be underestimated.
People naturally want to follow a person who believes that everything
will turn out well. When that belief implies that the people around you
will be a part of the positive outcome, they become that much more
excited and loyal to your leadership. Sheila Murray Bethel.
• Expecting success to follow a period of change affects your attitude
and that of your followers. It is a powerful motivator....When you
have faith that you and others in your organization will handle change
well, you'll be a strong leader. Sheila Murray Bethel.
• We will continue to have a bright future if we can encourage and
produce leaders who put ethics at the top of the list of leadership
qualities. If you are an ethical person you will attract others to you. If
making a difference means having great concern for ethics, you will
be one of those who lead. Sheila Murray Bethel.
• You don't get to control any outcome, only every choice you make
along the way. Stephen C. Paul.
• We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will
permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of
imagining. Frederick Tilney.

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• Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have
more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so
they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You
must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order
to have what you want. Margaret Young.
• A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by
yourself. Joel Arthur Barker.
• The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a
short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on
the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges
it. Warren Bennis.
• When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an
act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived
consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate
in the creation of a better world. Scout Cloud Lee.
• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live
long enough to make them all yourself. Sam Levenson.
• We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. Loretta
Scott.
• Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we
believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we
perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends
upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive.
What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe
determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our
reality. Gary Zukav.
• Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for
every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those
around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own.
The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all.
Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.
Kirsten Zambucka.
• It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the
difference. Bear Bryant.
• A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another
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effort that separates the winner from the one in second place. H.
Jackson Brown, Jr.
• EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as
much as you can. GIVE as much as you can. John Wellesly.
• Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never
want to do it any other way. Yogi Desai.
• I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for
myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world.
I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence.
I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts. Alice
Potter.
• Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all
good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well
as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be
quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more
naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy! Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi.
• You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. Jon Kabat-Zinn.
• Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum
strategies and repeating them until they become habits. Charles
Givens.
• We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. John Dryden.
• Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has
figured it out. Michael Burke.
• Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must
acquire it. Sudie Back.
• Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps. Joe
Murray.
• We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. Martha
Grimes.
• Thorough preparation makes its own luck. Joe Poyer.
• Give me a lever long enough and a prop strong enough and I can
single-handedly move the world. Archimedis.
• It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes.
• I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love,
and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me,
they will keep getting a busy signal-and soon they'll forget my
number. Edith Armstrong.

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• Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we


know in order to find out what we do not know . . . Hence, to think
creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take
for granted. George Kneller.
• A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but
rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Downs.
• Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it.
Frank Tyger.
• Though no one can go back and make a brand new start my friend,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new end. Carl Bard.
• The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. Jacob Bronowski.
• My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but
doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next
moment. Oprah Winfrey.
• Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand
the universe without God. Robert Herrman.
• When fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start
doing it right away. Stewart Brand.
• Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all
others. Cicero.
• Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is
making money. John Wicker.
• One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have
only interest. John Stewart Mill.
• All truth goes through three steps: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is
violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Arthur
Schopenhauer.
• Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no
one else has even been. You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you will discover
will be wonderful. What you will discover will be yourself. Alan Alda.
• Children need models rather than critics. Joseph Joubert Persees.
• Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing. Michael
Phillips.
• Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process
where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. Arthur
Koestler.
• The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new
landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust.

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• No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake.
• Life is a state of consciousness. Emmett Fox.
• Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is
wings. Hodding Carter.
• Order is heaven's first law. Alexander Pope.
• When the student is ready the teacher will appear. Zen Proverb.
• In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
John Churton Collins.
• Do it, dump it, or change it. Jim Janz.
• The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them. Bob
Harrington.
• A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for. Bob
Harrington.
• If wisdom were offered me with the provision that I should keep it
shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no
delight in owning anything unshared. Seneca.
• The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without
violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most
successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent
nonaggressiveness. This is called the mastery of men. Lao-Tse.
• Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because
they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move
ahead now. Denis Waitley.
• If it is to be, it is up to me. William H. Johnsen.
• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. Mark
Twain.
• Courage is the mastery of fear-not the absence of fear. Mark Twain.
• There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can
turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and create new
ones; it can lift men to angelship. Mark Twain.
• To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working. Dennis
Weaver.
• According to your faith; be it done unto you. Jesus Christ.
• Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come
from little things . . . I am tempted to think . . . there are no little
things. Bruce Barton.
• The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He
captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible
solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his

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faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the


need resolved, the crisis overcome. John Haggai.
• A difference, to be a difference, must make a difference. James Farr.
• Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep
the attention of their listeners. Dale Carnegie.
• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact
with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts:
what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it. Dale
Carnegie.
• You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind
to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the
mind. Dale Carnegie.
• Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention,
sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents
the wise choice of many alternatives. Willa A. Foster.
• When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you
are smarter than they are. Harold V. Melchert.
• Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and
probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in
hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once
recorded will not die. Daniel H. Burnham.
• Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that
perfectly. St Francis De Sales.
• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes.
• Don't find fault, find a remedy. Henry Ford.
• I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. William
Ernest Henley.
• There is a price for success but there is also a price for failure. Given
the choice, the price of success clearly has the best return on
investment. Michael E. Angier.
• Our job is to decide; the Universe's job is to provide. Michael E.
Angier.
• The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain,
egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous. On the contrary, it makes
them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes
people bitter and cruel. W. Somerset Maugham.

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• Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability


did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. Pierre Teilhard de
Chardin.
• Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to
complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by
what is deepest in themselves. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
• Circumstances do not make the man; they merely reveal himself to
himself. Epictetus.
• In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if
we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not
suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring
us into the wrong answers. Eric Butterworth.
• Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that
Jesus was man becoming God. Eric Butterworth.
• God can only do for you what He can do through you. Eric
Butterworth.
• A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. Charles Kettering.
• The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead
of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control
of your life. If you don't, life controls you. Anthony Robbins.
• Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be
around long enough to eat a lot. Anthony Robbins.
• It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich. Jim Rohn.
• Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication
skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift,
the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other
people. Jim Rohn.
• You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around?
What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What
have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do
they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me
becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Jim
Rohn.
• Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when
things don't go well. Jim Rohn.
• Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Jim
Rohn.
• The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but
not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be

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humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but
without folly. Jim Rohn.
• Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original
dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
• A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. Frank Capra.
• Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another
human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have
rekindled this light. Albert Schweitzer.
• Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order
that sets me free to fly. Julie Andre.
• Lack of money is the root of all evil. George Bernard Shaw.
• The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage
by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of
yourself. George Bernard Shaw.
• The finest eloquence is that which gets things done. David Lloyd
George.
• Be yourself. Who else is better qualified? Frank Giblin, II.
• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell
whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz.
• Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve
greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. William
Shakespeare.
• The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may
deride it, but in the end, there it is. Winston Churchill.
• The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill.
• Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France.
• I will study and prepare myself and one day, my day will come.
Abraham Lincoln.
• I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned
with what his grandson will be. Abraham Lincoln.
• Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle.
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a
habit. Aristotle.
• It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you
did it wrong. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
• God loves to help him who strives to help himself. Aeschylus.

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• There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make
a living. The other should teach us how to live. James Truslow
Adams.
• The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Thomas
Carlyle.
• There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
• Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
Confucius.
• There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded
individual. William James.
• The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William
James.
• The great use for life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James.
• Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money
become successful, but that successful people attract money. Wayne
Dyer.
• If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.
Wayne Dyer.
• Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for
empowers you. Wayne Dyer.
• We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
Wayne Dyer.
• Transformation literally means going beyond your form. Wayne Dyer.
• Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a
habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you
reap a destiny. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to
always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean.
• For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not?
Why not me? Why not now? Jimmy Dean.
• One man with courage makes a majority. Andrew Jackson.
• If you have knowledge, let others light their candles by it. Will
Rogers.
• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. Lady Bird
Johnson.
• People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.
Earl Nightingale.

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• The psychology behind the fear of change is a concern that we'll loose
our personal identity and not know what to do or how to act after the
change. We won't "be ourselves" anymore. So, to help people deal
with their fear, leaders must help them see how they will be affected
by the change. What will become of them and what will the change
mean to their personal lives. Sheila Murray Bethel.
• Very little is more rewarding to a leader than watching people
blossom and grow. To see their faces when they accomplish a new
task and to share their excitement when they do what they thought
was impossible — these are the rewards of a change master-leader.
When you help other people change, grow, and discover their own
potential, you have added to the quality of their lives. Sheila Murray
Bethel.
• Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is
not possible to live a really complete and successful life unless one is
rich. No one can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul
development unless he has plenty of money, for to unfold the soul and
to develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have
these things unless he has money to buy them with. Wallace D.
Wattles.
• Every person naturally wants to become all that they are capable of
becoming. This desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in
human nature. Wallace D. Wattles.
• You must get rid of the last vestige of the old idea that there is a Deity
whose will is that you should be poor or whose purposes may be
served by keeping you in poverty...A seed, dropped into the ground,
springs into activity, and in the act of living produces a hundred more
seeds; life, by living, multiplies itself. It is forever becoming more. It
must do so, if it continues to be at all…In order to know more, do
more, and be more we must have more. We must have things to use,
for we learn, and do, and become only by using things. We must get
rich so that we can live more…The One Substance desires to live
more in and through you. Therefore it wants you to have all the things
you can use. It is the desire of God that you should get rich. Wallace
D. Wattles.
• You can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make
the most of yourself. Wallace D. Wattles.
• But remember that extreme altruism is no better and no nobler than
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wants you to sacrifice yourself for others and that you can secure his
favor by doing so. God requires nothing of the kind. What God wants
is that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for
others. And you can help others more by making the most of yourself
than in any other way. Wallace D. Wattles.
• You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not
to compete for what is already created. You must never think for a
moment that the supply is limited. Wallace D. Wattles.
• You cannot give everyone more in cash market value than you take
from him, but you can give him more in use value than the cash value
of the thing you take from him. Give everyone more in use value than
you take from him in cash value. Then you are adding to the life of the
world by every business transaction. Wallace D. Wattles.
• First, you believe that there is one intelligent substance, from which
all things proceed. Second, you believe that this substance gives you
everything you desire. And third, you relate yourself to it by a feeling
of deep and profound gratitude. The whole process of mental
adjustment and attunement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude.
You cannot exercise much power without gratitude, for it is gratitude
that keeps you connected with power. The grateful mind is constantly
fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the
form or character of the best, and will receive the best. Also, faith is
born of gratitude. The grateful mind continually expects good things,
and expectation becomes faith. Wallace D. Wattles.
• If you were going to send a wireless message to a friend, you would
not send the letters of the alphabet in their order and let him construct
the message for himself, nor would you take words at random from
the dictionary. You would send a coherent sentence, one which meant
something. You must know what you want and be specific and
definite. The more clear and definite you make your picture then, and
the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the
stronger your desire will be. And the stronger your desire, the easier it
will be to hold your mind fixed upon the picture of what you want.
Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it, to bring it
out in tangible expression. And behind this purpose must be an
invincible and unwavering FAITH that the thing is already yours, that
it is “at hand” and you have only to take possession of it. Wallace D.
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• The person who can sincerely thank God for the things which as yet
he owns only in imagination has real faith. He will get rich. He will
cause the creation of whatever he wants. Wallace D. Wattles.
• You have no right to use your will power upon another person, even
“for his own good”, for you do not know what is for his good. To get
rich, you need only to use your will power upon yourself. When you
know what to think and do, then you must use you will to compel
yourself to think and do the right things. That is the legitimate use of
the will in getting what you want – to use it in holding yourself to the
right course. Wallace D. Wattles.
• If you want to become rich, you must not make a study of poverty.
Things are not brought into being by thinking about their opposites.
Medicine as a science of disease has increased disease; religion as a
science of sin has promoted sin, and economics as a study of poverty
will fill the world with wretchedness and want…Get rich. That is the
best way you can help the poor. If you want to help the poor,
demonstrate to them that they can become rich. Prove it by getting
rich yourself. Wallace D. Wattles.
• Every person who becomes rich by competition knocks down the
ladder by which he rises, and keeps others down, but every person
who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow – and
inspires them to do so. Wallace D. Wattles.
• By thought, the thing you want is brought to you, by action you
receive it. When things reach you, they will be in the hands of others,
who will ask an equivalent for them. And you can only get what is
yours by giving the other person what is rightfully his. Wallace D.
Wattles.
• Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change
of environment by action. You can so act upon the environment in
which you are now, as to cause yourself to be transferred to a better
environment. You can advance only by being larger than your present
place, and no one is larger than his present place who leaves undone
any of the work pertaining to that place. The world is advanced only
by those who more than fill their present places. Wallace D. Wattles.
• Do everything that you do in the firm conviction that you are an
advancing personality and that you are giving advancement to
everybody. Wallace D. Wattles.
• Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be. When an
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impelled toward it, take it. It will be the first step toward a greater
opportunity. Wallace D. Wattles.
• Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now.
You are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to
someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and
experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality. Wayne
Dyer.
• Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who
is Youer than You. Dr. Seuss.
• Without faith it is impossible to please God, and without faith it is
impossible for you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic
of all really great men and women is an unwavering faith. Wallace D.
Wattles.
• You must learn not to look upon the world as a lost and decaying
thing but as a something perfect and glorious which is going on to a
most beautiful completeness; and you must learn to see men and
women not as lost and accursed things, but as perfect beings
advancing to become complete. We must remember that this is not a
bad world but a good world in the process of becoming. Wallace D.
Wattles.
• Live a great life where you are, and in the daily work you have to do,
and greater works will surely find you out. Big things will come to
you, asking to be done. Wallace D. Wattles.
• Unless you think well of all the works of God you cannot really think
well of yourself, and unless you think well of yourself you can never
become great. You can move forward as you see God doing. You
have within yourself the source of every power. Wallace D. Wattles.
• The only service you can render to God is to give expression to what
he is trying to give the world, through you. The only service you can
render God is to make the most of yourself in order that God may live
in you to the utmost of your possibilities. Your first duty to God, to
yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in
every way, as you possibly can. And that, it seems to me, disposes of
the question of duty. Wallace D. Wattles.
• You should always love people and use money, rather than the
reverse! Bob Proctor.
• You should realize that people don’t feel comfortable about money
because they have it; they have it because they feel comfortable about
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is that they have developed that state of consciousness called


“prosperity consciousness”. Therefore, it follows, if we wish to attract
money to ourselves, we must begin to foster a prosperity
consciousness as well. Bob Proctor.
• You must begin to see money as an obedient, diligent servant, that
you can employ to earn more money, and that you can use to provide
services far beyond the service that you could ever physically provide.
Bob Proctor.
• Money is a servant; I am the master. Bob Proctor.
• The only competition you will ever have is with your own ignorance.
Bob Proctor.
• Most religions teach that God is responsible for everything made in
this world and I would fully subscribe to this proposition. However, as
co-creators, human beings must bear responsibility for WHAT God
makes in their lives. Bob Proctor.
• Continue to hold the image of personal prosperity and understand that
what is happening to you is what must happen to prepare you to
receive the good you desire. Bob Proctor.
• Keep your mind on a higher image rather than a lower concern. Philip
Nacola.
• No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life.
It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.
Understanding and application ate the keys which will unlock the door
to a truly abundant life. Bob Proctor.
• Be good to yourself. Treat yourself to the very best life has to offer.
Remember quality is not expensive, it’s priceless! Bob Proctor.
• LET GO AND LET GOD. Bob Proctor.
• Scientists will tell you that everything is energy. I choose to say that
everything is Spirit. Bob Proctor.
• Faith is the connecting link between God and You, and therefore, it is
your most valuable nonphysical possession. In truth, it is the
cornerstone to everything you will ever build or achieve during the
course of your entire lifetime. In fact, I would go so far as to say that
whatever you accomplish in your lifetime, will be in direct proportion
to the intensity and persistence of your faith. Bob Proctor.
• Money is a useful, obedient servant. However, like all servants, it is
useful to us only when it is being employed. Bob Proctor.
• You are an instrument through which spirit flows, just as a light bulb
is an instrument through which electricity flows. Bob Proctor.

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• You think in secret and it comes to pass, environment is but your


looking glass. James Allen.
• People, as a rule, can be classified as positive personalities (optimists)
or negative personalities (pessimists). Bob Proctor.
• Forgiveness means letting go of the past. Gerald Jampolsky.
• When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with
joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. Arland Gilbert.
• Risk-takers are knowledgeable people who study situations carefully,
have confidence in their own abilities and have a very healthy self-
image. Bob Proctor.
• Only in serving others can we reach the true pinnacle of leading.
Sheila Murray Bethel.
• The more power you have and the higher your leadership takes you,
the more critical it is to maintain access to the truth. Sheila Murray
Bethel.
• Don't trade integrity for status or power — it's a very poor bargain.
Sheila Murray Bethel.
• Commitment is important at every stage of your leadership
development. It is that intangible ingredient you reach for, deep
inside, to help you through the tough times. It is the inner strength that
keeps you going when everyone else gives up. And total commitment
can create miracles. Faithfulness and persistence are the first two
ingredients of commitment. Action is the third ingredient that gives
the first two life. Sheila Murray Bethel.
• Your self-worth is not your net worth....Your potential is endless.
Sheila Murray Bethel.
• No matter what your age, your experience, or your position, you can
dream a dream that will make a difference, you can have a mission
that matters. Sheila Murray Bethel.
• At various times of life, we find ourselves with a handful of blocks of
different sizes and shapes, out of which we can build some aspect of
life, and it behooves us to build it as beautifully as we can.... Isaac
Asimov.
• Aim not for what you are, but for what you could be. Lucas Hellmer.
• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every
time we fall. Nelson Mandela.
• Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this
connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging. Deepak Chopra.

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• To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to


accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it. Bunker Hunt.
• When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the
world. Harold Kushner.
• The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making
them come true. James Allen.
• Knowledge is power, for each level of knowledge, you are held
responsible for how you use it. Gary Zukav.
• Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, what's in it for me? Brian
Tracy.
• You have learned nothing, until you have a new PERMANENT
change in RESULTS. Val Van de Wall.
• While one person is deciding why something will not work, another is
making it work! Gerry Robert.
• Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long
remain so if you perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. James Allen.
• One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great
surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford.
• The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar
or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under
the sun. John D. Rockefeller.
• At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from
another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of
those who have lighted the flame within us. Albert Schweitzer.
• When you have a gift to offer, the world will make room for you. You
must have patience and keep the faith. Tyler Perry.
• You've got to win in your mind before you win in your life. John
Addison.
• Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome.
Invented ones are like a maze. Barbara Sher.
• God loves the world through us. Mother Teresa.
• I now realize there are millions of self-made millionaires who started
with nothing. They dug inside themselves to find the answers and
they succeeded. There is nothing anyone else can do that I can't do.
Dean Graziosi.
• Rich people constantly learn and grow. Poor people think they already
know. T. Harv Eker.

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• The Universe wants to give to you. The moment you begin to change
your vibration to one of abundance, it will start sending you people,
situations, and opportunities that reflect your inner state. Peggy
McColl.
• We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. John Dryden.
• Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is but a vision. Today well lived
makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a
vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day. Sanskrit proverb.
• Walk in the sunlight every day for at least the few minutes it takes to
remind yourself that the universe is our real timekeeper. Deepak
Chopra.
• Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it, but with
wisdom, gold can be secured by those who have it not. George S.
Clason.
• Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it can buy FREEDOM: freedom of
choice, to be able to do what you enjoy doing and not be forced to do
things just because you need “the money”. T. Harv Eker.
• Heaven is the space within each one of you that dances in the light.
Twila Thompson.
• The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart
sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will
find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! Henry Ward Beecher.
• Happiness is a byproduct of an effort to make someone else happy.
Grette Brooker Palmer.
• People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they
begin to blame someone else. Experience is determined by yourself,
not the circumstances of your life. Gita Bellin.
• The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of
today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
• Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to
make the picture your own. Robert Collier.
• Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to
the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest
aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances. Jay Leno.
• Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your
soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill.
• Often God shuts the door in our face, and then subsequently opens the
door through which we need to go. Catherine Marshell.

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• Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you
cannot change. Tom Clancy.
• Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made like a brick;
re-made all the time, made new. Ursula K. LeGuin.
• Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think
of yourself less. Ken Blanchard.
• The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large
extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-
respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's
shortcomings as he is of his own. Eric Hoffer.
• That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the
people by doing what you know is right than to temporarily please
them by doing what you know is wrong. William J.H. Boetcker.
• Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they
want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. Willis
Whitney.
• To incarnate, the soul creates a personality from those parts of itself
that it wants to heal in the physical environment. Gary Zukav.
• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie.
• No person is your enemy, no person is your friend, every person is
your teacher. Florence Scovel Shinn.
• Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. Oprah
Winfrey.
• Intuition is a spiritual faculty that does not explain, but simply points
the way. Florence Scovel Shinn.
• A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going
down. Arnold Glasgow.
• Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. John D.
Rockefeller.
• If you have a positive thought your body actually goes into a positive
vibration, you actually attract everything that resonates with that
vibration. John Assaraf.
• The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the
notes to reach the magic in the players. Blaine Lee.
• Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and
you don't talk back. W.K. Hope.

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• The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember,


the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to
do, be the best at doing it. Debbi Fields.
• Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your
mental blueprint and begin. Robert Collier.
• As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can;
by making the best choices; by making the most of the talents we've
been given. Mary Lou Retton.
• Put your future in good hands - your own. Mark Victor Hansen.
• Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right
place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward
the next opportunity. Arthur Pine.
• Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
John Wooden.
• Dreams are only foolish to those who lack them. Peter Reese.
• Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give
without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without
meanness. George Sand.
• No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is
required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and
above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate
distinction. Charles Kendall Adams.
• Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far
more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting
moment. Benjamin Franklin.
• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any
wonder drug. Patricia Neal.
• Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just
passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. Joel A.
Barker.
• Faith has a powerful effect in helping people recover a sense of
balance, tranquility and hope. Robert Veninga.
• Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are
for empowers you. Wayne Dyer.
• It’s not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to
be the right person in the right place at the right time. T. Harv Eker.
• Your income can grow only to the extent you do. T. Harv Eker.
• Patience and fortitude conquer all things. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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• There are three constants in life…change, choice and principles.


Stephen Covey.
• There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That
magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first. Paramahansa
Yogananda.
• I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein.
• Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your
level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of
yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. Ralph
Marston.
• There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they
exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. Denis Waitley.
• When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead of
it and make trial after trial until it comes. Thomas Edison.
• Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate
and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to
everyone all the time. Thomas J. Watson.
• As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and
patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong
by exercising himself in right thinking. James Allen.
• Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. Benjamin
Spock.
• You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only
solution. Bob Proctor.
• The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of
mind. Wayne W. Dyer.
• By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness
of character. Grenville Kleiser.
• It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. Jean Nidetch.
• Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and
responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the
moment. Sidney Poitier.
• Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get
you where you want to go, no one else. Les Brown.
• The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is
this: decide what you want. Ben Stein.

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• Make a commitment to yourself to let love to dictate what you do


next. You are far more likely to have the results of health, wealth and
happiness if your thoughts and actions are rooted in love. Robert T.
Kiyosaki.
• Your own business is the best mirror you can look into. Robert T.
Kiyosaki.
• Having your own business is like growing a tree – it’s a living
organism that goes through seasons and storms and beautiful summer
days and winter blizzards, but it keeps on growing and is literally an
expression of yourself. Donald Trump.
• To be successful, often you need to choose between the death of the
old you and the birth of a new you. Robert T. Kiyosaki.
• Your financial statement is your real world “report card”. Robert T.
Kiyosaki.
• Empowerment comes with enlightenment. Donald Trump.
• Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when
its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic. Gerald G
Jampolsky.
• Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Omar Bradley.
• The key to why things change is the key to everything. James E.
Burke.
• We go the direction we face, and we face the direction we think. Jim
Rohn.
• Success is something you attract by the person you become. You’ve
got to develop the skills. Jim Rohn.
• You’ve got to choose discipline, versus regret, because discipline
weighs ounces and regret weighs tons. Jim Rohn.
• For your family, build a financial wall around your family nothing can
get through. Jim Rohn.
• Whatever you move towards, move towards you. Jim Rohn.
• The world improves people according to the dispositions they bring
into it. Renier Giustina Michiel.
• Your report card in school had letters or numbers on it. It told you
how you were doing. In real life, you don’t get a report card. But, you
have a financial statement. Your financial statement is your report
card in real life. Sharon Lechter.
• Circumstances don't make the man, they reveal him. James Allen.

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• The difference between people who make it and those who don’t is
the people who make it know how to recover from setbacks and
recover quickly… That doesn’t mean you have to go out and look for
failures. Jim McCann.
• We can have a hand in our own daily miracle of health. Lewis F.
Presnall.
• Money is one of the most important subjects of your entire life. Some
of life's greatest enjoyments and most of life's greatest
disappointments stem from your decisions about money. Whether
you experience great peace of mind or constant anxiety will depend
on getting your finances under control. Robert G. Allen.
• Someone with a prosperity consciousness thinks about money the
same way a farmer thinks about planting his crops. He looks at money
as a "seed" that will yield a harvest. He plants with total faith that each
"seed" will bring wealth his way. He thinks about each seed bringing
abundance. And he understands that a certain percentage of all that is
harvested must be saved, replanted or provided to others to keep the
GAME going. Matthew Furey.
• We can let circumstances rule us or we can take charge and rule our
lives from within. Earl Nightingale.
• It is when children see the worst in themselves that it is the parents’
job to see only the best. You may notice that this works not only on
little kids, but on grown-up kids also. Robert T. Kiyosaki.
• Intelligence is the ability to make finer distinctions, or to multiply by
dividing. Robert T. Kiyosaki.
• If you want to be rich, you need to think in terms of how many people
you can serve. Robert T. Kiyosaki.
• Success is the freedom to be yourself. Kathy Kolbe.
• Education is derived from the same root as the word educe, which
means “to draw out”, not “to put in”. Robert T. Kiyosaki.
• When you look in your young child’s eyes, always remember that in
your child there lives a little “geni”. It may not be the same one that
the school system looks for, but your child’s genius is there
nonetheless. And although the school system may not look for it, it is
important for you the parent or the teacher to look for it. For whenever
you look inside a child’s eyes and see his or her genius, this child’s
genius is there to remind us all that we too have a geni-in-us. It is this
geni in all of us that brings the magic of life to life. Robert T.
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• We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are. Anais Nin.
• Surely God would not have created such a being as man to exist only
for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. Abraham Lincoln.
• Living for God’s glory is the greatest achievement we can accomplish
with our lives…Since God created all things, he deserves all the
glory…When anything in creation fulfills its purpose, it brings glory
to God. Rick Warren.
• God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. John
Piper.
• The reason you are able to enjoy pleasure is that God made you in his
image. Rick Warren.
• Anything you do that brings pleasure to God is an act of
worship…Any act of obedience is also an act of worship. Rick
Warren.
• Make your face shine upon your servant and teach me your decrees.
Psalm 119:135.
• The smile of God is the goal of your life. Rick Warren.
• Trusting God completely means having faith that he knows what is
best for your life. Rick Warren.
• God doesn’t owe you an explanation or reason for everything he asks
you to do. Understanding can wait, but obedience can’t. Instant
obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible
discussions. In fact, you will never understand some commands until
you obey them first. Obedience unlocks understanding. Rick Warren.
• You don’t bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or
by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being
you…There are no unspiritual abilities, just misused ones. Start using
yours for God’s pleasure. Rick Warren.
• Offering yourself to God is what worship is all about. Rick Warren.
• Love casts out all fear. Rick Warren.
• The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we
become – because he made us. C. S. Lewis.
• You know you are surrendered to God when you rely on God to work
things out instead of trying to manipulate others, force your agenda,
and control the situation. You let go and let God work…Surrendered
people are the ones God uses. Rick Warren.
• Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God. Rick
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• Knowing and loving God is our greatest privilege, and being known
and loved is God’s greatest pleasure. Rick Warren.
• The more time you spend reviewing what God has said, the more you
will understand the “secrets” of this life. Rick Warren.
• Prayer lets you speak to God; meditation lets God speak to you. Both
are essential to becoming a friend of God. Rick Warren.
• Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier.
• The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If
you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will
prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you
are. Thomas Dreier.
• Joy comes from using your potential. Will Schultz.
• To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you
will receive untold peace and happiness. Robert Muller.
• The deepest level of worship is praising God in spite of pain, thanking
God during a trial, trusting him when tempted, surrendering while
suffering, and loving him when he seems distant. Rick Warren.
• Never doubt in the dark what God told you in the light. V. Raymond
Edman.
• The entire Bible is the story of God building a family who will love
him, honor him, and reign with him forever. Rick Warren.
• Every human being was created by God, but not everyone is a child of
God. The only way to get into God’s family is by being born again
into it…Being included in God’s family is the highest honor and the
greatest privilege you will ever receive. Rick Warren.
• Four of the Ten Commandments deal with our relationship to God
while the other six deal with our relationships with people. But all ten
are about relationships! ... After learning to love God (worship),
learning to love others is the second purpose of your life. Rick
Warren.
• Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount
of it. You can make more money, but you can’t make more time.
When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of
your life that you’ll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why
the greatest gift you can give someone is your time. Rick Warren.
• The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The
best time to love is now. Rick Warren.

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• Your five deepest needs: a purpose to live for, people to live with,
principles to live by, a profession to live out, and power to live on.
Rick Warren.
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret
Mead.
• Whenever you are hurt by someone, you have a choice to make: will I
use my energy and emotions for retaliation or for resolution? You
can’t do both. Rick Warren.
• Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don’t
understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness
is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior. Rick
Warren.
• When you work for peace, you are doing what God would do. That’s
why God calls peacemakers his children. Rick Warren.
• God wants unity, not uniformity. Rick Warren.
• Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of
immaturity. On the other end, settling for the real without striving for
the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension. Rick
Warren.
• Obedience unlocks God’s power. Rick Warren.
• You must want to grow, decide to grow, make an effort to grow, and
persist in growing. Rick Warren.
• We become whatever we are committed to. Rick Warren.
• Spiritual growth is the process of replacing lies with truth. Rick
Warren.
• God’s Word generates life, creates faith, produces change, frightens
the Devil, causes miracles, heals hurts, builds character, transforms
circumstances, imparts joy, overcomes adversity, defeats temptation,
infuses hope, releases power, cleanses our minds, brings things into
being, and guarantees our future forever! Rick Warren.
• The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
Samuel Smiles.
• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting
started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small
manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. Mark Twain.
• Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. Mildred
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• Problems force us to look to God and depend on him instead of


ourselves. Rick Warren.
• Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more
difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and
moral fiber…It is vital that you stay focused on God’s plan, not your
pain or problem…Notice that God tells us to “give thanks in all
circumstances” not “for all circumstances”….Be patient and
persistent….Character building is a slow process. Rick Warren.
• You know you are maturing when you begin to see the hand of God in
the random, baffling, and seemingly pointless circumstances of life.
Rick Warren.
• If you are facing trouble right now, don’t ask, “Why me?” Instead ask,
“What do you want me to learn?” Then trust God and keep on doing
what’s right….Don’t give up, grow up! Rick Warren.
• Every temptation is an opportunity to do good….Character
development always involves a choice, and temptation provides that
opportunity. Rick Warren.
• God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You
can’t claim to be good if you’ve never been tempted to be bad. You
can’t claim to be faithful if you’ve never had the opportunity to be
unfaithful. Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be
dishonest. Rick Warren.
• Heaven has a twenty-four-hour emergency hot line. God wants you to
ask him for assistance in overcoming temptation. Rick Warren.
• You defeat bad thoughts by thinking of something better. This is the
principle of replacement. You overcome evil with good. Rick Warren.
• Every change involves a loss of some kind: you must let go of old
ways in order to experience the new. Rick Warren.
• You were put on earth to make a contribution. You weren’t created
just to consume resources – to eat, breathe, and take up space. God
designed you to make a difference with your life….In God’s kingdom,
you have a place, a purpose, a role, and a function to fulfill. This gives
your life great significance and value. Rick Warren.
• We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are
saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven. Rick Warren.
• We must act on what we know and practice what we claim to believe.
Rick Warren.

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• You are not an assembly-line product, mass produced without


thought. You are a custom-designed, one-of-a-kind, original
masterpiece….Only you can be you. Rick Warren.
• Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what
happens to you. Aldous Huxley.
• Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others. Rick Warren.
• God deserves your best. He shaped you for a purpose, and he expects
you to make the most of what you have been given. Rick Warren.
• Your shape was sovereignly determined by God for his purpose, so
you shouldn’t resent it or reject it. Instead of trying to reshape
yourself to be like someone else, you should celebrate the shape God
has given only to you. “Christ has given each of us special abilities –
whatever he wants us to have out of his rich storehouse of gifts”. Rick
Warren.
• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you
can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people
you can, as long as you ever can. John Wesley.
• Great opportunities often disguise themselves in small tasks. The little
things in life determine the big things. Rick Warren.
• We are all sculptors and painters; our material is our own flesh and
blood and bones. Henry David Thoreau.
• Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only
the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have
to master yourself. Olga Korbut.
• Real servants don’t try to use God for their purposes. They let God
use them for his purposes. Rick Warren.
• The only really happy people are those who have learned how to
serve. Albert Schweitzer.
• God specializes in turning weaknesses into strengths. He wants to take
your greatest weakness and transform it. Rick Warren.
• There isn’t enough time to learn everything in life by trial and error.
We must learn from the life lessons of one another. Rick Warren.
• God invites you to participate in the greatest, largest, most diverse,
and most significant cause in history – his kingdom. History is his
story… Nothing matters more, and nothing will last as long. Rick
Warren.
• The more you know the more God expects you to use that knowledge
to help others. Rick Warren.

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• Living on purpose is the only way to really live. Everything else is


just existing. Rick Warren.
• A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell.
• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little 'extra'.
Jimmy Johnson.
• Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals
above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of
them and a little bit more. Lou Vickery.
• It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels
of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. Les
Brown.
• INDULGE IN YOUR VIRTUES, STARVE YOUR VICES and you
will achieve your dreams and live a life of total fulfillment. Anthony
Robbins.
• Only in quite waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in
a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. Hans Margolius.
• Expand the self-image and you expand the “area of the possible”. The
development of an adequate, realistic self-image will seem to imbue
the individual with new capabilities, new talents and literally turn
failure into success. Maxwell Maltz.
• Be brave enough to accept the help of others. Melba Cosgrove.
• The greatest definition for concentration I ever heard is: wherever
you are, be there! Jim Rohn.
• To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be
more fun? Katherine Graham.
• A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. Frank Capra.
• The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good
everywhere. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• Good is as “real” as evil. It is merely a matter of to what we choose to
give primary attention – and what thoughts we hold in the mind.
Deliberately choosing to think pleasant thoughts is more than a
palliative. It can have very practical results. Maxwell Maltz.
• The delights of self discovery are always available. Gail Sheehy.
• Successful personalities have some interest in and regard for other
people. They have a respect for others’ problems and needs. They
respect the dignity of human personality and deal with other people as
if they were human beings, rather than pawns in their own game. They
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• It is a psychological fact that our feelings about ourselves tend to


correspond to our feelings about other people. When a person begins
to feel more charitably about others, he invariably begins to feel more
charitably toward himself. The person who feels that “people are not
very important” cannot have very much deep-down self-respect and
self-regard – for he himself is “people” and with what judgment he
considers others, he himself is unwittingly judged in his own mind.
Maxwell Maltz.
• One of the best known methods of getting over a feeling of guilt is to
stop condemning other people in your own mind – stop judging them
– stop blaming them and hating them for their mistakes. You will
develop a better and more adequate self-image when you begin to feel
that people are more worthy. Maxwell Maltz.
• Practice treating other people as if they had some value – and
surprisingly enough your own self-esteem will go up. For real self-
esteem is not derived from the great things you’ve done, the things
you own, the mark you have made – but an appreciation of yourself
for what you are – a child of God. When you come to this realization,
however, you must necessarily conclude that all other people are to be
appreciated for the same reason. Maxwell Maltz.
• The first step toward acquiring knowledge is the recognition of those
areas where you are ignorant. The first step toward becoming stronger
is the recognition that you are weak. And all religions teach that the
first step toward salvation is the self-confession that you are a sinner.
In the journey toward the goal of ideal self-expression, we must use
negative feedback data to correct course, as in any other goal-striving
situation. Maxwell Maltz.
• Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in
life to find it and to keep it lit. Mary Lou Retton.
• Try giving affection, love, approval, acceptance, understanding, to
other people, and you will find them coming back to you as a sort of
reflex action. Maxwell Maltz.
• Forgiveness, when it is real and genuine and complete, and forgotten
– is the scalpel which can remove the pus from old emotional wounds,
heal them, and eliminate scar tissue. Maxwell Maltz.
• What we call “personality” is the outward evidence of that unique and
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divinity within us – or what might be called the free and full


expression of your real self. Maxwell Maltz.
• In the final analysis, you always get paid for your results. Brian
Tracy.
• People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success
because they don't know when to quit. Most people succeed because
they are determined to. George E. Allen.
• A “crisis” is a situation which can either make you or break you. If
you react properly to the situation, a “crisis” can give you strength,
power, wisdom you do not ordinarily possess. If you react improperly,
a “crisis” can rob you of the skill, control, and ability that you
ordinarily have to call upon….The word “crisis” comes from a Greek
word which means, literally, “decisiveness,” or “point of decision.” A
crisis is a fork in the road. One fork holds a promise of a better
condition – the other of a worse condition. Maxwell Maltz.
• We are what we repeatedly do. Aristotle.
• What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of
art in progress? Imagine that you are a masterpiece unfolding, every
second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.
Thomas Crum.
• Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others
belong to us as well. Voltaire.
• What we see depends mainly on what we look for. John Lubbock.
• The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill.
• Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which
difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. John Quincy Adams.
• Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. Hippocrates.
• The answer to your dreams is inside you. Lorna Ozman.
• Nothing happens by chance. This is a world of law and order. Joseph
Murphy.
• The most fundamental and the most far-reaching activity in life is that
which you build into you mentality every waking hour. Joseph
Murphy.
• Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands
possibilities like unleashed imagination. William Arthur Ward.
• Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. Bo Jackson.
• Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole
clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! Andrew
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• Helping people grow and achieve their dreams is the fastest route to
success; both theirs and yours. T. Harv Eker.
• You can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price. Vince
Lombardi.
• The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward
making it happen. Lee Iacocca.
• The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius.
• Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured
by your belief in yourself. Robert Collier.
• The way to get rid of darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold
is with heat; the way to overcome the negative thought is to substitute
the good thought. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish. Joseph
Murphy.
• There is no true success without peace of mind. Joseph Murphy.
• Your thought fused with feeling becomes a subjective belief, and
according to you belief it is done unto you. Joseph Murphy.
• The power of sustained imagination draws forth the miracle-working
powers of your subconscious mind. Joseph Murphy.
• The secret of success in life is for a person to be ready for opportunity
when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli.
• If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Milton Berlet.
• Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and
you will automatically change the other. Maxwell Maltz.
• It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of
him. John Steinbeck.
• The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up. Mark
Twain.
• What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you
become by achieving your goals. Zig Ziglar.
• Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you
become what you believe. Oprah Winfrey.
• The happiest man is he who brings forth the highest and the best in
him. God is the highest and the best in him, for the kingdom of God is
within. Joseph Murphy.
• Some things have to be believed to be seen. Ralph Hodgson.
• The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Augustine of Hippo.

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• Your concept of God is the most important thing in your life. If you
really believe in a God of love, your subconscious mind will respond
in countless blessings to you. believe in a God of love. Joseph
Murphy.
• To forgive is to give something for. Give love, peace, joy, wisdom,
and all the blessings of life to the other, until there is no sting left in
your mind. This is really the acid test of forgiveness. Joseph Murphy.
• The statements of others cannot hurt you except through your own
thoughts and mental participation. Identify yourself with your aim,
which is peace, harmony, and joy. You are the only thinker in your
universe. Joseph Murphy.
• When fear knocks at the door of your mind, let faith in God and all
things good open the door. Joseph Murphy.
• We must believe the things we teach our children. Woodrow Wilson.
• Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which
difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. John Quincy Adams.
• It takes the hammer of persistence to drive the nail of success. John
Mason.
• Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. William
Arthur Ward.
• You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for
the sake of tomorrow. Norman Cousins.
• Skill to do comes of doing. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing
the buck or coming back with excuses. Napoleon Hill.
• Bigness comes from doing many small things well. Individually, they
are not very dramatic transactions. Together though, they add up.
Edward S. Finkelstein.
• Patience is needed with everyone, but first of all with ourselves. St
Francis de Sales.
• Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be
careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. W.
Clement Stone.
• If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
William James.
• Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. Soren
Kierkegaard.
• Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can. Arthur
Ashe.

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• We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things


that make up the sum of greatness. Theodore Roosevelt.
• The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an
individual views a mistake. Nelson Boswell.
• Champions keep playing until they get it right. Billy Jean King.
• Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Bernard Berenson.
• Good habits are hard to learn, but easy to live with. Bad habits, on the
other hand, are easy to learn but hard to live with. In either case, once
you have developed a habit, it becomes automatic and easy. Brian
Tracy.
• He who would rule must learn to obey. Confucius.
• Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the
ways a person defines himself, measures his worth and his humanity.
Peter Drucker.
• When you are clear, what you want will show up in your life, and only
to the extent you are clear. Janet Attwood.
• Act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be! Dorothy Brande.
• It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus
your energies on answers - not excuses. William Arthur Ward.
• I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying. Dolly Parton.
• High expectations are the key to everything. Sam Walton.
• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who
keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your
mind young. Henry Ford.
• One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to
self-confidence is preparation. Arthur Ashe.
• Your circumstances reveal your beliefs. Question your beliefs and
upgrade them, and watch your circumstances upgrade accordingly.
Alan Cohen.
• You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win,
prepare to win, and expect to win. Zig Ziglar.
• Your income is primarily determined by your philosophy. Jim Rohn.
• The great use for life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James.
• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. Pat
Riley.
• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. Walt Disney.

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• Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
Warren Buffet.
• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it
takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill.
• No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if
we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better
things. Channing Pollock.
• The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full
potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal
excellence. Eddie Robinson.
• A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly
to do well and to help those who are doing well do even better. Jim
Rohn.
• You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to
dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see
that plan through to the end. Sidney A. Friedman.
• Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right
place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward
the next opportunity. Arthur Pine.
• You only have one life, and that life is eternal. Roy Martina.
• When we overcome our fears, we can stop surviving and really start
living. Roy Martina.
• Fear is our biggest enemy; we can only manifest inner peace after we
have dealt with fear. It is your most important and highest priority!
Roy Martina.
• We might be adults but we don’t always act like adults when it comes
to our fears. Most of them are imagined; like the dragons and
monsters we saw in the dark as youngsters. They disappeared when
the light was turned on! Shine the light of love on your fears and you
will never feel alone again! Roy Martina.
• Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to
put it into words is all that is necessary. Margaret Cousins.
• Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. Ivern Ball.
• Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have
no choice but to believe with you. Cynthia Kersey.
• The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If
you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will
prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you
are. Thomas Dreier.

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• Everything is always impossible before it works. That's what


entrepreneurs are all about - doing what people have told them is
impossible. Hunt Greene.
• The greatest help or giving one may give to another is to help the
other to get the understanding of Truth. In this way, one gives the
other the formula for happiness. Lester Levenson.
• There is no problem which cannot be dissolved immediately in the
light of Truth. Lester Levenson.
• Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to
your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you
shall be the miracle. Phillips Brooks.
• Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after
another. Walter Elliott.
• Real love should be the basis of marriage. Real love has no element of
needing the other one, or possessing the other one. Real love wants
only to make the other one happy. Lester Levenson.
• Marriage should be used to aid one’s growth by developing love more
and more – until it is complete. Lester Levenson.
• Looking for pleasure is part of the unconscious drive toward the
infinite joy that is inherently yours. Lester Levenson.
• A greater obstacle is overcome by a greater truth. Lester Levenson.
• The best question to think on is “Who am I?” Lester Levenson.
• Develop a constant feeling of gratitude toward God and everyone.
This makes one always joyous. Lester Levenson.
• That which you are seeking is seeking you more so. Lester Levenson.
• Earth is a classroom to which we come to learn the eternal truths.
Lester Levenson.
• Get out of your cage. Be a sage. Lester Levenson.
• Fortunate is the one who life does test, that he may grow. The greater
the test, the greater one may grow. Lester Levenson.
• You can help the world only to the degree you can help yourself.
Lester Levenson.
• For best decisions, decide only when your mind is quietest and you
feel happiest. Lester Levenson.
• Compassion is... spirituality and a way of living and walking through
life. It is the way we treat all there is in life - ourselves, our bodies,
our imaginations and dreams, our neighbors, our enemies...
Compassion is spirituality as if creation mattered. It is treating all
creation as holy and divine... which is what it is. Matthew Fox.

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• The difference between great people and everyone else is that great
people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by
their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The
difference between the two is the difference between living fully and
just existing. Michael E. Gerber.
• Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little
difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Denis Waitley.
• Every choice you make has an end result. Zig Ziglar.
• There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the
wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning
pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people,
situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.
Shakti Gawain.
• Love can be its own reward. Arnold Lobel.
• The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that
interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your
whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural
ability you have. John D. Rockefeller III.
• Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. Henry
Ford.
• The readiness is all. William Shakespeare.
• You’ve got to think about the big things while you’re doing the small
things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. Alvin
Toffler.
• Celebrate any progress. Don’t wait to get perfect. Ann McGee Cooper.
• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting
started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small
manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. Mark Twain.
• An idealist believes that the short run doesn’t exist. A cynic believes
that the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or
left undone in the short run determines the long run. Sidney J. Harris.
• Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be
the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face,
kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. Mother Teresa.
• Before a man can lift himself he must lift his thoughts. When we shall
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• The secret of learning is joyfulness, fun and delight. When these are
present your whole body will accept what you learn into itself.
Mantak Chia.
• Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own
eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to place a
circle of power at your own feet and not take power from someone
else's circle. Agnes Whistling Elk.
• The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is
going. Author unknown.
• Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of
yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit
it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture! Norman
Vincent Peale.
• Formula for success: underpromise and overachieve. Tom Peters.
• The size of the future you actually experience will largely be
determined by one factor: the people you choose to connect with.
When you invite people who are truly committed to growth into every
aspect of your life, your own potential for growth becomes truly
unlimited. Dan Sullivan.
• I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness
depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the
nature of those events themselves. Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt.
• This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything.
Scott Reed.
• Awareness is your key to open the door of higher consciousness. Eric
J. Pepin.
• Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good,
behave yourself and never mind the rest. Beatrix Potter.
• We need to find the courage to say 'NO' to the things and people that
are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives
with authenticity. Barbara De Angelis.
• Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you
can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the
people you can. As long as ever you can. John Wesley.
• We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can
prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before
we can lead. William Arthur.

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• There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they


exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. Denis Waitley.
• Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. Zig
Ziglar.
• Your role in achieving your goal must be giving your all. Involve
yourself whole: with your heart, your mind and your soul. Victoria
Holtz.
• Action is the real measure of intelligence. Napoleon Hill.
• The aim of an argument or discussion should be progress, not victory.
Joseph Joubert.
• Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these
moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to
change our lives. Trinidad Hunt.
• If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts,
liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Andrew Carnegie.
• I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything… at
least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of
what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
Dan Millman.
• Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get
you where you want to go, no one else. Les Brown.
• We lift ourselves by our thought. If you want to enlarge your life, you
must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of
yourself as you long to be, always everywhere. Orison Swett Marden.
• Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from
Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its
being what it is. Lao Tzu.
• To those who are good to me, I am good; and to those who are not
good to me, I am also good – and thus all get to be good. To those
who are sincere with me, I am sincere; and to those who are not
sincere with me, I am also sincere – and thus all get to be sincere. Lao
Tzu.
• You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because
you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever
need. Jerry Gillies.
• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we
must do. Johann von Goethe.
• My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my
greatest asset. Jack Nicklaus.

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• Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of


their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what
they can accomplish. Sam Walton.
• The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting
goals and achieving them. Og Mandino.
• Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of
enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it
gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or
difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a
life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles. Og
Mandino.
• If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you're
doing. Love what you're doing. And believe in what you're doing. Will
Rogers.
• The size of the future you actually experience will largely be
determined by one factor: the people you choose to connect with.
When you invite people who are truly committed to growth into every
aspect of your life, your own potential for growth becomes truly
unlimited. Dan Sullivan.
• Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us. Earl
Nightingale.
• Start doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly
you are doing the impossible. St. Francis of Assisi.
• We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things
in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's
evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and
protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the
sunshine and light, which comes always to those who sincerely hope
that their dreams will come true. Woodrow T. Wilson.
• We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big
difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which,
over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman.
• Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of
aspiration and expectation. Jack Nicklaus.
• Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are
an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper
resources and draw the best out of life. Harvey Mackay.

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• See things as you would have them be instead of as they are. Robert
Collier.
• At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from
another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of
those who have lighted the flame within us. Albert Schwietzer.
• To become fully alive a person must have goals and aims that
transcend himself. Herbert A. Otto.
• It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, and the
one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. Vince
Lombardi.
• A happy family is but an earlier heaven. George Bernard Shaw.
• To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to
motivate you, something to inspire you. Tony Dorsett.
• Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.
Carl G. Jung.
• When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill
you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. W.
Clement Stone.
• Everyone's life is under someone's control - it might as well be under
your own so that you can direct your destiny. Harry Tucker.
• When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that
person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel.
Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
Catherine Ponder.
• The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon
your goal and launch, get started, take action, move. Brian Tracy.
• You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person.
Scott Sorrell.
• It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest
difference in the quality of your life. Anthony Robbins.
• It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been
before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. Anais Nin.
• When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go
out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things. Norman
Vincent Peale.
• We have just forgotten who we are. We are the forgotten gods. This is
our journey to rediscover our own divinity. Mantak Chia.

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• The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always,


rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy. J. Donald
Walters.
• It's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your
goal that will enable you to attain the success you seek. Mario
Andretti.
• Making a mistake and then judging ourselves harshly is like paying
compound interest on a bad investment. We don’t always act in ways
that please us, but beating ourselves up over mistakes doesn’t do any
good. Howard Martin.
• The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.
Oprah Winfrey.
• All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures; they
were men and women who projected into the future. They thought of
what could be, rather than what already was, and then they moved
themselves into action, to bring these things into fruition. Bob
Proctor.
• The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and
achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the
goal itself. Bo Bennett.
• Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend. Thomas Stanley
& William Danko.
• Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and
passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.
Marcia Wieder.
• Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait
for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.
Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's
at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and
savored. Earl Nightingale.
• Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and
responsibility to give something back by becoming more. Anthony
Robbins.
• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the
charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust.
• Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference.
They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Barbara De Angelis.

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• Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good


things really are. Marianne Williamson.
• None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up
from our own bootstraps. We got here because somebody bent down
and helped us. Thurgood Marshall.
• If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the
shoulder of giants. Isaac Newton.
• Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way
things turn out. Art Linkletter.
• It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin.
• The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that
you can become. Harold Taylor.
• A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and
usually the best way to get there. H. Stanley Judd.
• Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going
to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that
goal, and by maintaining focus. Oprah Winfrey.
• There are three things that a child can teach an adult: to be happy for
no reason; to be always busy doing something; and to know how to
demand - with all one's might - what one wants. Paulo Coelho.
• Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are
still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be
born. Dale Turner.
• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior
teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur
Ward.
• You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people.
Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half
the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything
gloomy. Lydia M. Child.
• You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down
and feeling your heart's desires. Marcia Wieder.
• Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your
smile can be the source of your joy. Thich Nhat Hanh.
• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else
expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard
master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else. Henry Ward
Beecher.

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• Time is money. Benjamin Franklin.


• Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the
experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing. Phil
Jackson.
• My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are
easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make
them because they're popular; you make them because they're right.
Theodore Hesburgh.
• Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where
there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. Ella
Fitzgerald.
• Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
• I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived girl who made good. I think
of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible
for myself, and I had to make good. Oprah Winfrey.
• The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of
that which we have in others. Francois De La Rochefoucauld.
• An Investment in knowledge always gives the best return. Benjamin
Franklin.
• Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and
wise. Benjamin Franklin.
• Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with
passion and its destination is excellence. Napoleon Hill.
• Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of
courage and true progress. Nicholas M. Butler.
• When you paint success pictures in your mind, you initiate an inner
process whereby your attitudes, hopes, aspirations, and enthusiasm are
elevated in response to an image of a more promising future. Every
person who aspires must first sell themselves hope, the promise of a
better life. Uell Stanley Andersen.
• The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from
common things. Henry Ward Beecher.
• Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every
day a holiday and celebrate just living! Amanda Bradley.
• When the solution is simple, God is answering. Albert Einstein.
• Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what
he does from day to day to lead himself. Thomas J. Watson.

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• Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are
essential to really keep us alive. Robert H. Schuller.
• Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. Bo Jackson.
• Goals determine what you're going to be. Julius Erving.
• Goals are dreams with deadlines. Diana Scharf Hunt.
• This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything.
Scott Reed.
• If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I
know how, everything falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm
going to succeed. Dan Dierdorf.
• I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that
handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it;
friends make life a lot more fun. Charles R. Swindoll.
• The only certain means of success is to render more and better service
than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. Og
Mandino.
• We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully
engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've
established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort
to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so
worthwhile. Earl Nightingale.
• The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward
making it happen. Lee Iacocca.
• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe.
• One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List
every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go
through the day. Alan Lakein.
• The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his
influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the
beautiful jewels of wisdom. James Allen.
• You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when
you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in a
spirit of love. Henry Drummond.
• Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the
improbable and attain the impossible. William Arthur Ward.
• Great hopes make everything great possible. Benjamin Franklin.

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• Remember, what you get by reaching your destination isn't nearly as


important as what you become by reaching your goals - what you will
become is the winner you were born to be! Zig Ziglar.
• The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined
goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a
day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved
them. Denis Waitley.
• Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if
they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be
amazed at the energy that comes out of you. William James.
• Fortune favours the audacious. Desiderius Erasmus.
• All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have
fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes
seemed impossible. Orison Swett Marden.
• The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential.
When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but
the world. Roger Williams.
• The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation
with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.
Barbara Pletcher.
• The future you see is the future you get. Robert G. Allen.
• All great achievements require time. David J. Schwartz.
• Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all
eternity. Johann Kaspar Lavater.
• Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.
Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you
do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of
themselves. Dale Carnegie.
• Within each of us is a hidden store of energy. Energy we can release
to compete in the marathon of life. Within each of us is a hidden store
of courage. Courage to give us the strength to face any challenge.
Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to
keep us in the race when all seems lost. Roger Dawson.
• The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way
to be happy is to make others so. Robert G. Ingersoll.
• All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he
knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do. Norman
Vincent Peale.

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• Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself


from the unacceptable. Denis Waitley.
• Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment
to an unrelenting pursuit of the goal - a commitment to excellence -
that will enable you to attain the success you seek. Mario Andretti.
• A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths;
feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees
your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your
possibilities. William Arthur Ward.
• You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person.
Scott Sorrell.
• Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a
good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
• Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own
reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. George
Washington.
• All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures; they
were men and women who projected into the future. They thought of
what could be, rather than what already was, and then they moved
themselves into action, to bring these things into fruition. Bob
Proctor.
• The great use of life is to spend it doing something that will outlast it.
William James.
• Your living is determined not so much by what life brings you as by
the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as
by the way your mind looks at what happens. Lewis L. Dunnington.
• Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good
things really are. Marianne Williamson.
• Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire others
to follow. Vincent Lombardi.
• Where focus goes, energy flows. Anthony Robbins.
• Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at
your best. David O. McKay.
• Nothing preaches better than the act. Benjamin Franklin.
• Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you
come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is
people who have come alive. Harold Whitman.

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The purpose of Life is "to get ready for Eternity" by


"becoming able to experience true Heaven on Earth".

'As below (inside) so above (outside),


and as above (heaven) so below (earth)...'

The Emerald Tablet


(Italics by the Author)

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